As expected, Camping found a way to weasel out of his utterly failed prediction. Now he says God's arrival to Earth was SPIRITUAL, not physical, and that...
"The great earthquake didn’t happen on May 21 because no-one will be able to survive it for more than a few days or let alone five months to suffer God’s wrath because everything will be leveled and destroyed after that earthquake and there will be no food or water to keep everyone alive."
So God's going to destroy everything in one day instead:
"The finish five months from now – we’re not changing the date, we’re just learning we have to look at this more spiritually. The Bible clearly teaches on October 21 that the world will be destroyed, but it will be very quick. When you study the Bible, you’re always learning. We had all of our dates correct."
I think the most important lesson here is not that he's interpreted the Bible incorrectly, but that this is the danger of faith-based belief--it can lead to absolute certainty yet you can be absolutely wrong.
