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KNOWLEDGE SHALL BE INCREASED
By: Calvin L. Rigdon
In the "National Courier" a religious newspaper, April 29, 1977, there
is a picture of a man's hand, with a piece of glass between the thumb
and the index finger. The article reads:
"Can you guess what that piece of glass is between the man's thumb and
index finger?
"If you said it's the Bible-- you're right, The entire King James
Version has been printed on a photosensitive glass plate manufactured
by the Eastman Kodak Co. that is smaller than a postage stamp. The
project took six years to complete."
This amazing feat staggers the mind--the fact, that with a microscope
camera, the entire Bible could be transferred from 35 millimeter film
to this glass plate smaller than a postage stamp. The work was done by
Micrometrology Laboratories, a company near Dallas, Texas.
A few years ago, RCA placed an ad that also illustrated the dramatic
increase in knowledge. Modern printing had its primitive beginning--
when Johannes Gutenberg invented movable type in 1450. The Gutenberg
Bible is generally considered to be the first book printed from
movable type. This monumental work took five years. RCA introduced
VideoComp, an electronic typesetter that can put down words at the
remarkable speed of 360,000 characters a minute. Instead of the five
years needed by Gutenberg in 1450 to print the Bible, VideoComp can
print the entire book in about five hours-from five years "to five
hours-quite a contrast. They state that through laser-holography, the
entire Bible can be stored on a space about the size of a dime. On one
sheet of paper, 10" x 13" laser-holography can store all the
information contained in a complete set of encyclopedias.
Daniel said that at the time of the end "knowledge shall be
increased."
Scientists say that the amount of knowledge is doubling every two and
one-half years. "Editorial Research Reports" is the authority for the
assertion that ninety (90) per cent of all the real scientists that
have ever lived in the history of man's thousands of years are alive
now. The book, The Beginning of the End, by Dr. Tim Le Haye states,
"It has been estimated that seventy (70) per cent of the medicines in
use today were-developed after World War II." Encyclopedia Britannica
places the newly accumulated knowledge of each year in an annual
volume. It is reported that Sperry Rand Corporation has developed a
memory bank which can assimilate the 850,000 words of the Bible five
times in one second. A quite astonishing fact is that more than one-
half of all the products on the American markets today were unknown
two decades ago. ". . .knowledge shall be increased."
One of the amazing inventions that has made possible the tremendous
increase of knowledge and the almost unbelievable events of our day is
the computer. The computer has made possible the space flights,
including the travels to the moon. The value of the computer to solve
complex problems was clearly illustrated by its ability to solve the
trouble with the Apollo 13 mission when it was nearly aborted due to
the fact that the ship was in trouble in space. It took a computer
eighty-four minutes to discover and correct the problem. To solve the
problem, a man with pencil and paper, would have required 1,000,000
years.
The talking computer is now a reality. It is reported that a computer
with a 4,000 word vocabulary is being used at international
conferences by its developer, Lt. Colonel Vernon Walters. Seymour
Wolfson, a Wayne State University computer expert, states, "Already
there is a report of computer systems that have the storage capability
of 10 trillion human beings."
Perhaps through the development of such computers some of the
prophecies concerning the Antichrist and his rule over all mankind
will be fulfilled.
Not only has there been an increase in the sum total of knowledge, but
there has been a great increase in the dissemination of such
knowledge. Through the means of communication brought by the
transistor radio, knowledge of the entire world has been taken to the
most primitive places of earth. The Chinese government boasted some
years ago that everyone of its then 720 million people was within
sound of a constantly broadcasting radio. Their aim was to have a
radio in every home by 1971. In developed countries, it is estimated
that well over 95 per cent of the people are reached by television.
Daniel said, ". . .knowledge shall be increased" at the time of the
end. We who are living in this day, within the last twenty years, have
not only seen the vast increase in the accumulation of knowledge, but
also the means of getting knowledge to people in all parts of the
inhabited earth.
(The above material appeared in an issue of the Pentecostal Herald.)
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