Wikipedia's article on The Late Great Planet Earth, covering Hal Lindsey's and Carole C. Carlson's authorship, the 1970 Zondervan publication, the New York Times's characterization of it as the decade's best selling nonfiction title, its dispensationalist content and specific predictions, and the 1978 film narrated by Orson Welles. Useful for the biographical, publication and reception spine; not a source for whether the predictions themselves were sound, which needs an independent scholarly source.
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Reliability Tier3
Wikipedia's article on The Late Great Planet Earth is a continuously revised tertiary encyclopedia entry with no named author or peer review process, hence the lower tier, though useful for the book's authorship, publication and reception spine. NotesCollaboratively edited encyclopedia article, checked directly. Fit for the publication, sales and film spine; the failed-prediction assessment here is corroborated against Paul Boyer's scholarly study cited separately.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Late_Great_Planet_Earth
Source Typereference
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- Other Writings, 11 claims: 6 well-attested, 4 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds.
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