Nostradamus: Depopulation of the World
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(preface § 26
In his preface to The Centuries — a letter to his son — Nostradamus makes one of his few predictions that is crystal clear. It is also clearly mistaken.
From the time I am writing this [1 March 1555], before 177 years, 3 months and 11 days, by pestilence, long famine, and wars, and more still by inundations, the world between this day and that, before and after, shall be diminished, and its population so reduced that there will hardly be hands enough to attend to agriculture, and the lands will be left as long without culture as they have been under tillage
The deadline for this prediction is easily calculated:
Day Month Year
Start 1 3 1555
Add 11 3 177
Total 12 6 1732
i.e., 12 June 1732
The drastic conditions predicted are quite specific and very long-lasting, yet nothing of this sort has occurred and the deadline is long past.
Robert C. Newman, PhD
Professor of New Testament
Biblical Theological Seminary
Philadelphia, USA
