Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Lost Book of Nostradamus

The History Channel has aired a show called the "Lost Book of Nostradamus." The show deals with a book of watercolor images found in Rome in 1994. The book bears the name "Nostradamus," and the show deals with whether the famous prophet really created the images.

The program also includes interviews with various people who claim to be experts in the prophecies of Nostradamus. These experts go on at length about what the various images tell us about the future of the world in the year 2007.

The show lacks anyone who asks the most important questions. Was Nostradamus a prophet, or was he a fraud? And why should anyone alive today think that this sixteenth-century Frenchman was able to predict events in the present century? Most important of all, are all the experts really finding the future in the work of Nostradamus, or are they merely bilking the public?

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