Zero came from India actually, and quite a long time ago I don't see why you can't accept theories for the end. The world will end, someday. Seems silly we'd not be able to predict it in someway, even hundreds of years ago

I am aware the Mayans were excellent astronomers, and while I don't buy this whole "doomsday" stuff, I know they were good astronomers. They invented the number zero (At least I think so; I haven't really studied them since seventh grade), without which modern mathematics wouldn't exist, and by extension, binary and computers wouldn't either. I'm aware the Mayans weren't savages (that was merely completely politically incorrect hyperbole, by the way), I just don't buy the whole "end of the world" stuff. It's not just them, either. I'm scathingly skeptical of all "END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT" theories. While the Mayans were excellent astronomers, I doubt they'd be able to predict the exact day that, say, an asteroid wiped out life on Earth (just a possible doomsday scenario). If they can, then hey, joke's on me.

It's not that they lived thousands of years ago, either. Hell, the Romans were far more advanced than medieval Europe, and that was more recent. It's more the fact that I'm simply not likely to believe a doomsday theory without sufficient evidence backing it. If the Romans, Chinese, Germans, or Canadians came up with a Doomsday theory, I'd be just as skeptical.

That quote was also stolen from some guy I don't know, by the way. I mostly posted it because I'm sick of seeing "LOL GAIZ DU YOO TINK DAT DA WURLD IZ GUNNA ENND EEN 2012!!11!1?!?!!11?!" threads.

What? Are you seriously stating that just because they lived a long time ago, they had no idea what they were about? Modern scientists can split an atom, and make bigger explosions but running water, roads, every day essentials that you wouldn't be able to live your life without were all invented thousands of years ago. The Egyptians had electricity in clay jars. Sure, we've improved upon things a fair bit, but standing back and looking at human history as a whole, we've not come very far. Our ancestors were able to do things we've not been able to recreate, things that were simply lost to time.

I don't see why it's so impossible to think that the Mayans who were excellent astronomers and created a better calendar than the Western civilization was able to create, would be unable to predict an end for us. There are so many things we simply don't know about them, and every time archaeological digs happen in Central America, they always seem to come up with new astounding things of the Mayans.

Da Vinci had drawings and plans for helicopters and tanks and he conceived the ideas of solar power and the calculator. This was five hundred years ago. When did we get tanks? When did we get helicopters? We haven't even fully utilized solar power and yet this is all not new. Why is it so impossible to believe that people who lived in stone were better than us at something?

And why did you edit in "Woah there cowboy?" XD