Most people don’t believe on doomsday

BANGKOK, December 19 (TNA) - A latest survey conducted among 1,461 people in all Thai region, from December 12-18, showed that 92.45 per cent of the respondents did not believe a myth on doomsday on December 21 as indicated on the Mayan calendar. The survey of Bangkok-based Rajabhat Suan Dusit University, widely known as the Dusit Poll, found most of the respondents believed that it should be totally impossible, citing scientists as saying that it was only a prophecy. Of the overall respondents, 6.46 per cent tended to be half belief, saying some changes could happen to the solar system on December 21, but it would be only a natural phenomenon, which should not lead to the feared doomsday. The rest of 1.09 per cent of the respondents happened to believe, saying it was recorded in the Mayan calendar and the Mayans were expert in the astronomy in the old days. (TNA)