Worried about the supposed apocalypse in 2012? Never fear: Newton spent a lot of times studying the subject
In fact, he believed that God had chosen him specifically to interpret the Bible — and concluded that the world would end no sooner than 2060. “This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be,” he explained, “but to put a stop to the rash conjectures of fanciful men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, and by doing so bring the sacred prophesies into discredit as often as their predictions fail.”
