Now, the end-of-the-world scenario may be exacting a toll on the new age church founded in 1957 by a husband of Ms. Prophet, Mark.

Doom by germs is only one of many end-of-the-world scenarios hitting us daily, even hourly.

Your own people cannot agree on the matter, even though end-of-the-world scenarios abound in your culture.

They would have, lad, had they all been dumb enough to follow the end-of-the-world scenario I have been sketching.

Most of your end-of-the-world scenarios, they mean end of the human world.

"I got that past the editors because it was the Cold War, the end-of-the-world scenario, the Russians," he said.

Kate Winslet in Contagion - the fourth movie this month with an end-of-the-world scenario.

A nattering doomsday prophet, trying to convince them of an end-of-the-world scenario that is merely demented fiction.

It is a satirical simulation of an end-of-the-world scenario fought mostly with nuclear weapons.

Phil Plait is an astronomer and science writer who debunks astrology and end-of-the-world scenarios.