Why was the 2012 (end of the world) theory created.
I heard it had something to do with the mayan calendar ending.. and people just randomly thought of the idea since the calendar ended it meant the end of the world

it is the end of the aztec calender

it's the date of a Solar line up that happens every 14,000 yrs…

Just another nonsense fairy tale designed to frighten ignorant people and sell books and movie scripts.

So we could make TV shows and sell advertisements.

It was a test to separate the ignorant from the rational.

THE Bible foretold that mankind would experience “critical times hard to deal with.” it describes this period as “the last days.” (2 Timothy 3:1-5; 2 Peter 3:3-7) Jesus Christ spoke of this same era when answering a question posed by his disciples regarding “the conclusion of the system of things.” (Matthew 24:3) are we now living during the last days? Compare what the Bible foretold with the recent reports quoted below, and then judge for yourself.

What the Bible foretold: global conflict—Luke 21:10; Revelation 6:4.

What recent reports say: “War-related deaths in the 20th century were more than three times greater than in all previous centuries combined, back to the birth of Christ.”—Worldwatch Institute.

What the Bible foretold: food shortages and disease—Luke 21:11; Revelation 6:5-8.

The Bible foretold the world conditions we see today

What recent reports say: in 2004 an estimated 863 million people on earth were undernourished, 7 million more than in 2003.—United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.

Some one billion people live in slums; 2.6 billion people lack basic sanitation; 1.1 billion people are without safe drinking water.—Worldwatch Institute.

Malaria affects 500 million people; 40 million people live with HIV-AIDS; tuberculosis killed 1.6 million people in 2005.—World Health Organization.

What the Bible foretold: the ruining of the earth—Revelation 11:18.

What recent reports say: “Human activities have taken the planet to the edge of a massive wave of species extinctions.” “Nearly two thirds of the services provided by nature to humankind are found to be in decline worldwide.”—Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.

“Human-made greenhouse gases have brought the Earth’s climate close to critical tipping points, with potentially dangerous consequences for the planet.”—NASA, Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

What the Bible foretold: the good news of God’s Kingdom preached earth wide—Matthew 24:14; Revelation 14:6, 7.

What recent reports say: During 2007, a peak of 6,957,854 Witnesses of Jehovah spent more than 1.4 billion hours preaching the good news about God’s Kingdom in 236 lands.—2008 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

As noted above, the Bible foretold that amid all the bad news, there would be reason for optimism. Jesus spoke of the “good news” of God’s Kingdom.

A theory is a scientific attempt to explain an observed phenomenon.

The "end of the world in 2012" is NOT a theory, its a hoax.

Some nutjobs predicted the world would end in 2003 – apparently, aliens told them about it through brain implants (riiiight). but they were wrong (“oops, sorry we must have misinterpreted the aliens”). there they were, with books and survival kits and foil hats and no way to sell them, so they needed to move the end of the world to some date in the future.

The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar clicks over to a new cycle on 12/21/2012 (it doesn't end) – enough years in the future to sell all their stuff, and since no one will bother to do any research anyway, that would be a good date.
But the myth wasn't catching on, so they added a pile of scientific words (no facts or anything, since nutjobs and their followers very seldom worry over anything as trivial as facts). Galactic alignment, rogue planet, pole shifts – they sound real, they sound possible and no one ever researches anything. no one bothers to find out that the Mayan calendar doesn't actually end in 2012, so no way people will bother to find out any other facts.

An lo, a hoax is born.

Thus you have a bunch of people that are afraid but have no idea why, some people making money off the gullible, and a few people trying to cure this pandemic with facts.

it was predictied by nostradamus

Why was the 2012 (end of the world) theory created?