Jeff Kuneth

Mose Macdonald works the impound yard of Stealth Recovery and Towing in Eugene, Ore. May 19, 2011 under the shadow of a billboard proclaiming this Saturday as "The Judgement Day." An organization run by Harold Camping of Oakland, Calif. has purchased billboards all over the country proclaiming May 21st will mark the end of the world. (AP PHOTO/The Register-Guard,Chris Pietsch)

Breaking: The world will end Saturday or not

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Al Allen believed the world would end in 1994. It didn't. He was disappointed.

This time, he's more certain that Judgment Day will arrive at 6 p.m. Saturday, May 21.

"There is so much more information in the Bible since 1994. This thing is a certainty. It's going to happen," said Allen, 68, a retired chemist. "The whole world is going to be scared out of its wits."

Allen, of Winter Haven, Fla., is a follower of radio preacher Harold Camping, who miscalculated Judgment Day in 1994 but has recalibrated the end of the world to a precise day and time. The end, he claims, will come exactly 7,000 years since the flood and Noah's Ark -- the last time God decided to wipe the slate clean and start all over again.

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