That the Bible, or some parts of it, might have had a Divine, or at
least extraterrestrial, origin might be suggested in an unexpected way
by two parts of it...
Genesis 11:6
And the LORD said, "Behold, the people [is] one, and they have all one
language, and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained
from them, which they have imagined to do."
Daniel 12:4
But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, [even] to the
time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be
increased.
Generally speaking, we are told that the idea of progress, in the sense
of technological progress, is a modern conception; it happened too
slowly in the ancient world for people to notice it, and so it was not
until the Industrial Revolution that this concept was discovered. Before
then, if people thought in terms of change over time at all, it was in
terms of hearkening back to a past Golden Age.
It could be that this claim, often repeated in various books and
articles, is, if not specious, at least of limited scope. In the ancient
world, educated people, at least, were aware that there was a time when
their ancestors did not know how to read and write. In the ancient
world, new things were invented from time to time.
So, even though they did not live in a time of technological wonders
like the electric light bulb and the Edison kinetograph, and they knew
not Moores' Law, the more learned people may well have had a concept of
incremental progress available to them, even though they knew perfectly
well that such progress would not add up, even over many lifetimes, to
anything that would transform and overturn people's lives, unlike the
case of the present day.
John Savard
http://www.quadibloc.com/index.html
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