In November, scientists predict that a massive asteroid will fly near the earth in one of the planet’s closest encounters with an asteroid since 1976. While most people are focusing on how radar and observers can watch the asteroid pass-by, Pat Robertson is using the occasion to propagate his End Times prophesy. According to Roberts, citing Revelations 8:8, “the only thing that can fulfill the words of Jesus and the words of Revelation would be an asteroid hitting the United States, hitting the earth, and it’s going to happen.” Robertson also claims that an asteroid “wiped out the dinosaurs,” which is only startling because as an avid creationist one would expect Robertson to think Noah’s flood led to the extinction of dinosaurs.
