The Mayan doomsday prophesy

The 8.9 earthquake that triggered a giant tsunami and killed thousands of people in Japan has raised another doomsday warning, especially from those who are deep in religion. This is a throwback from the  time of John the Baptist who warned "Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand". In modern times we have seen similar scenarios of people, many of them odd balls, wearing signs "repent for the end of the world is near'.
One of the most intriguing doomsday prophesies come from those who are convinced that the ancient Mayan Indians saw and recorded the date of the world's doom on December 21, 2012,the Gregorian date when the Mayan calendar ends. This prediction lent some currency of truth because the Mayans were reputed to have been well-studied.
The Maya is among the extinct tribes of ancient people of Mesoamerica with a vast interconnected empire filled with rich art, education and destruction. They have a written language based on pictographs much like the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. The Mayans were said to have an understanding of mathematics and understood the value of zero long before its discovery in the Eastern parts of the world.
Their understanding of numbers and astronomy made their calendars more accurate than the Gregorian calendar that we are using. Many people believe that the end of the Mayan calendar prophesied the end of civilization while believe that it is simply a change of enlightenment in the current time.
Terrifying Mayan predictions about the end of the world have their roots in ancient astronomical observations. Mayan astrologers meticulously recorded the movement of the stars, and created a lunar calendar, allowing them to keep track of the five cycles they believed the world was divided into and also of events of the natural world.
They seemed to be able to use this calendar to predict rainy seasons, storms and hurricanes. They also began to notice a galactic alignment; it is believed they witnessed the alignment of the sun with the center of the Milky Way, something that happens only once every 26,000 years. Could they have ended their calendar on the date of this next alignment or does it mean that the sun centering itself with the galaxy will trigger the energy to end the world?
Receding icecaps in Peru have recently been able to provide a clue as to what the ancient Maya may have interpreted as the end of the world. An area once boggy and green and vegetative, become suddenly covered in ice. Rooted wetland plants have been discovered as the ice continues to recede.
Carbon dating has revealed that these ancient plants were virtually snap frozen 5,200 years ago, at the end of the last Mayan world, and the beginning of their new calendar. Could this be the kind of global event that influenced Maya mythology, and can dramatic climate changes in the past say anything about the end of the Mayan calendar in 2012?
Could the Mayan people really have foreseen the increase in population for instance, the burning of fossil fuels all changing the composition of the atmosphere, it is coincidence, however, that now, 5,200 years later, we appear to be seeing a new climate change. Could this climate change end up being something even more devastating then the Maya ever envisaged?
The evidence of abrupt climate change more than 5,000 years ago could have influenced Mayan prophecies. Is it just coincidence that this previous change happened at the beginning of the new Mayan calendar? It seems feasible that the Mayans experienced a great climate change, and could have fed some of their prophecies for 2012, but is it also coincidence that the climate change we seem to be experiencing now have been foreseen centuries ago?
One explanation is that there will be a galactic alignment of the Milky Way, our galaxy, on December 21, 2010, On that date, the earth will enter the center of the elliptical plane of the Milky Way where the gravitational pull of a super massive black hole is at its strongest.
The theory says that each time the earth goes into this alignment every 58,000 years life extinction event take place. Since the earth entered into this alignment in 2008, there has been a dramatic increase in changing weather patterns, increased earthquakes around the world and volcanoes that have been extinct coming to life.

Blogger's note: I am not a scientist and just made a quick esearch on this from the Internet. This is not done to frighten people or drive them to embrace the Faith. I just believe that  we have to educate ourselves with whatever literature comes our way to enable us to make our own opinion instead of listening to rumors. I encourage everyone to do his or her own research. I always believe that education is a continuing process.