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nate poverty, illiteracy, crime,
broken marriages and international
conflicts.
The great minds of science know
this as well. The very popular
science writer, Ray Bradbury, an
advocate of future planetary mis–
sions, has said:
"The greatest scienlists in lhis
world cannol lell u s a l this
moment what Iife is all about. The
greatest religionists cannot tell us
what it is all about. ... So
blindly
we reach into space and say 'if the
sun should die, if the snow should
fall , if we are frozen deep in time,
or if the sun should explode, and
we are destroyed forever, does
that mean that our life blinks out
with Shakespeare or any of the
great people that we wish to speak
of?'
J
don ' t believe we want
that.
" J believe we lhink we are that
special, and that precious, and that
wondrous- that with all of our
flaws, with all the things that we've
done wrong, we should move lnto
space and preserve lhis special gift
that we have."
How true Mr. Bradbury 's
observat ions. The purpose of life
has not been discovered by scien–
tists, educators or the men of this
world's religions.
But the knowledge to unlock
lhe purpose of life- lo show, in
December 1981
Mr. Bradbury's words, how spe–
cial and precious mankind really
is-can
be found, probably right
on a book shelf in your own home.
Plain Truth
Editor in Chief Her–
bert
W.
Armstrong, in his
Person–
al
column, recently wrote of this
knowledge, undiscoverable by man
through his five physical senses:
"Nowhere but in the Bible can
one obtain THIS BASIC NECESSARY
KNOWLEDGE! Of course, there
seems to be an almost endless
amount of knowledge that MAN
can learn, discover or acquire by
himself. God gave man eyes that
see, ears that hear, hands that
feel. God gave man a MINO that
can reason, feet to carry him
about, hands that can design and
make instruments. He can make
telescopes and microscopes. He
can build and equip laboratories,
conduct experiments. He can trav–
el and explore.
"But he cannot discover , by him–
self, WHAT he himseJf IS, Or WHY
he is. Did he just happen, without
intelligent design, by a purposeless
process called 'evolution'? Or was
he CREATED, and pul here FOR A
PURPOSE? And what is that pur–
pose?"
" The Bible," continued Mr.
Armstrong, "is the FOUNDATION of
all knowledge-knowledge that is
otherwise utterly inaccessible to
SA TURN'S WORLD UP CLOSE: From
left to right are views of Saturn and its
manifold moons. Variations in chemical
composition from one part of Saturn's
ríng system to another, far left, are seen
in a fa/se-color image; icy moon
Tethys
(next two views) reveals two types of
terrain-bright, dense/y cratered regíons
and relatívely dark, lightly cratered
planes; satellite
lapetus
disp/ays we/1·
defined dark and bright regions; high·
resolution view of moon
Enceladus
(cen·
ter photo) reveals alternating features of
craters, grooves and smooth surfaces;
irregular shape of
Hyperion
is probsbly
the result of repeated impacts that have
broken off /arge chunks of the satellite;
two views of
Titan,
Saturn's largest
moon, show the satellite in its day· and
night· t ime phases. Titan is the only
moon in the solar system to possess an
atmosphere. In bottom photo, orange
ring is result of scattering of sunlight by
Titan's extensive atmosphere; photo·
graph, far right, displays the fine struc·
ture of Ssturn's bright F·ring.
the mind of man-the knowledge
of WHAT manis; of WHY manis; of
lhe true val ues; of THE
w
AY lo
peace, happiness, abundant well–
being, success; and of ETER AL
LIFE."
This is the knowledge that would
give purpose to society and not
merely make up for, but
solve
the
"negative aspects"- meaning
evils-of modern living.
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