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Thoughts from Pastor-Russell.com on the topic:

Sudden, rapid, increase in knowledge and world travel

Knowledge; Information; Technology; Communication; Travel … earthwide!  How far we have come since the first steam engine moved a man in 1804!  We take our modern inventions, medicine, and discoveries for granted, but these things have come upon mankind suddenly and rapidly.  Imagine a man who has lived for 60 years, all his life travelling mostly on foot or by horse, with practically no medicine, poor sanitation and limited access to knowledge.  Then, between his 60th and 61st birthday he witnesses everything from the invention of the lightbulb, to walking on the moon, to the mapping of the human genome. Sounds remarkable, doesn't it?  It's not so farfetched!  Mankind walked this earth for 60 centuries in darkness, and only in the last century did all of these amazing things come into existence.

Pastor Russell lived only at the beginning of this trend, but clearly saw that this was the fulfillment of Bible Prophecy, that Jesus had returned "in the image of the invisible God" (Colossians 1:15) and had begun the process of restitution to prepare the earth for his soon coming kingdom! (Acts 3:19-24)  Many who have thought about these remarkable advances remain puzzled as to why or how they came about.  Some even theorize that all our technological advancements come from creatures from other planets.  The Bible gives a better, and more logical, explanation.

Here are some of the more remarkable achievements of the 20th century: (in loose chronological order from left to right)

Plastic Farm tractors Vacuum cleaners
Radio Stainless steel Rocketry
Television Iron lung Air Conditioner
Hearing Aids Neutron discovered Mid-Ocean rift discovered
Water & Waste Treatment Plants Electron Microscope Voice recognition technology
Fluorescent bulbs Modern refrigeration First Int'l telepone call
Photocopier Fax machine Jet engine
Helicopter Penicillin Computer
Radar Nuclear Reactor Atomic bomb
Hydrogen bomb Washing machine Holograph
Microwave oven Mobile Phone Polaroid instant camera
Electric iron DNA discovered  
Transistors Credit Cards Human Kidney transplant
Sputnik (first satellite) Pacemaker Videotape Machine
Ultrasound   Superpolymers
Fiber Optics Laser Pulsars discovered
Polio vaccine Orbiting satellites Audio Cassette
Compact Disc Human Heart transplant Man walks on the moon
Pocket calculator Microprocessors Microsoft founded
LCD Desktop printers CAT scan
MRI Cardiac defibrillator Super-conductors
Gene-splicing Doppler Radar Artificial Insemination
Small-pox "eradicated" CNN founded Space Shuttle
Global Positioning System DVD Laptop Computer
Synthetic skin Hubble Telescope launched Magnetic-Induction lightbulbs
Modern Internet Mapping of the Human Genome Earth mapped from space


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