1) Throughout history many people have predicted the world would soon end, and the world did not in fact end.
2) Throughout history no one predicted the world would soon end, and the world did not in fact end.
The fact that the real world is aligned with scenario 1 is more an indication that there exists a pervasive human cognitive bias to think that the world is going to end, which occasionally manifests itself in the right circumstances (apocalypticism).
1) Throughout history many people have predicted the world would soon end, and the world did not in fact end.
2) Throughout history no one predicted the world would soon end, and the world did not in fact end.
The fact that the real world is aligned with scenario 1 is more an indication that there exists a pervasive human cognitive bias to think that the world is going to end, which occasionally manifests itself in the right circumstances (apocalypticism).