Skeptic Project

http://vigilantcitizen.com/vcboards/viewtopic.php?f=5&p=415033&sid=f192a45cc6e2c0b0831f7fa68869efb0

Doomies are either getting desperate or someone is trolling them. Or Poe.

When a theory's predictions are not born out by the facts, it should be rejected. So it should be with the theory that Nostradamus is a great prophet.

The fact that Nostradamus can be interpreted, and is interpreted in hundreds of different ways for the very same quatrains, should be enough to invalidate the claim for any rational thinking mind immediately.

There are no prophesies of Nostradamus that have ever come true, reason being is his prophesies were so vague and untranslatable into specifics that it could be possible to use retrodiction to fudge them into meaning multiple things.

The only specific prophecy Nostradamus ever appears to have made is this:

In the year 1999 and seven months
From the sky will come the great King of Terror
He will bring back to life the great king of the Mongols
Before and after war reigns happily


Some thought that this prophesied the end of the world,- others thought it foretold a world revolution. Both camps were mistaken because no such cataclysm occurred in July of 1999. Nostradamus's one specific prediction turns out to be false.

Quotes taken from : http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Think-About-Weird-Things/dp/007353577X