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Americans respond to millennium poll

When 1,027 Adults were asked if "the arrival of the new millennium means that the world will come to an end," 64% said it would not. Only 5% said they believed the world's end was very likely. The poll was conducted by the Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio university.

Questioned about the prophecies in the book of Revelation in the Bible, however, people's answers were quite different. Asked if they believed that "some day the world, as we know it, will be drastically changed by an act of God," 72% answered "Yes," while 24% replied in the negative. The remaining 4% did not know.

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