In a former post, we looked briefly at the panic created by the constant, negative media bombardment over the coronavirus situation. In the media, the general axiom about what gets reported is: "If it bleeds, it leads". In other words, negative news sells. However, with the new breed of reporters today, the axiom might rather be; "If it isn't bleeding, wound it so it does, then lead with it".
Some of what is in the news is fake, as we all know. Just like Darwinian evolution. "New discoveries" about bones, or ape-men, or dinosaur tissue, etc. are all designed to persuade the masses that Darwin was right.
Or, like the demise of Earth. "New discoveries" about how we are destroying it come in constant waves. Then the young people panic, wondering about their future.
Just so we remember to keep an even keel on what we are told in the media, let's take a glance back to the early 1970s at predictions made by scientists! These predictions were all based on news of the day, real or imagined. Here are a few...
1. Ecologist Kenneth Watt predicted that all crude oil will be gone by the year 2000.
2. A member of the National Academy of Sciences warned that lead, tin, zinc, and gold would be depleted before 1990, and that copper would be gone just after 2000.
3. Biologist Paul Erlich declared that by the 1980s, 100-200 million people per year would starve.
4. Professor Peter Gunter stated that demographers agree "almost unanimously" that by 2000, the entire world, except N. America, western Europe, and Australia will be in full famine.
5. LIFE Magazine reported that scientists have "solid experimental and theoretical evidence" that by 1980, all urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks, and that by 1985, 50% of the sunlight will be blocked by pollution.
6. Dr. Dillon Ripley believed that by 1995, 75-80% of all animal species would be extinct.
7. Dr. Kenneth Watt predicted that by the year 2000, we would be in the next ice age.
Remember the ozone hole? Remember acid rain? Remember Al Gore’s prediction made in 2006 about the apocalypse by 2016? Remember his claim in 2009, based on “science”, that the polar ice would probably be gone in 5 years? The list goes on....
Mankind's explanations for things are so often faulty and bizarre, so those who don't believe God or His Word are left with no hope, foundering and panicking over their own concepts and delusions.
Christians have absolutely no need to panic or be worried. God has planned everything. The Bible gives us great snapshots of man's history and future, and God's involvement in it. We know how the story ends! God's truth will win, and every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is LORD! (Phil. 2:10-11)
