1950 This Means Everlasting Life - A2Z.org

THE AUTHOR OF LIFE 25
tional Office of Vital Statistics, that "the average
life span in this country U .S .A. lengthened from
66 .8 years in 1947 to 67 .2 years in 1948 . . . . The
average length of life in 1900 was 49 .2 years . Thus
average life expectancy has lengthened eighteen
years in approximately half a century . The decline
in the death rate since 1940 has been greatest for
children from 1 to 4 years of age ." New York
Times, Feb . 16, 1950 That represents what modern
medical and social science is supposed to have
accomplished for the United States, one of the
most progressive countries of the world . An increase
of 18 years in the average age-length accomplished
in fifty years! Unaided by modern science,
the ark-builder Noah, who saw life on both
sides of the global flood, lived to be 950 years old .
Methuselah his grandfather died in the flood year
at the age of 969 years .-Genesis 9 :28 ; 5 :27 .
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Modern science cannot be depended upon to
build man up to live forever . Look at the condition
finally of any person whom it may have aided
to live to a ripe old age beyond the general average!
Modern science does not make for everlasting
life . What with its development of bacteriological
warfare and its invention of atomic bombs
and the hydrogen or "hell" bomb and other weapons
of mass destruction, modern science makes
rather for death . It contradicts its own benevolent
claims by prostituting itself to the aims of
this world . Modem science is not the all-essential
thing of which to gain knowledge in order to en-
8 . Why is modem science not the essential thing to
learn?