Ambassador College - Envoy Yearbook (Big Sandy, TX)

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Science Technology MAN at last walking and ca- vorting about on the MOON! Talks of a visit to Mars and other planets! MAN con- quering the HEAVENS! Heart transplants! Science has almost learned how to CREATE LIFE! Wonders and MORE WONDERS! Science and Technology now promise, before 1980, to pro- duce a magic pushbutton dream world of leisure, luxury, and license. It even dangles before the incredulous but worshipful eyes of the world the hope that it may confer on humanity the means of living on forever in this flesh- and-blood existence. Today ' s world looks with awe at Modern Science as the Messiah to deliver it from poverty, pain and suffering— from the drudgery of labor— to give it the heaven of Idle- ness and ease. But has Modern Science revealed to the world the PURPOSE of life, explained its meaning, revealed the TRUE VALUES? Has it brought WORLD PEACE? Has it delivered the world from poverty, famine, disease, and unhappi- ness? Has it ridded the world of broken homes, divorce, crime, insanity— or are all these on the upward spiral? This tour, too, leads only to disillu- sionment. Science and Technology confine themselves to the realm of the material and the mechanical. True Values? Purpose and Meaning of LIFE? THE WAY to peace, happiness and JOY? Ah, we find these are not their concern. These are outside their field. Let us look, again, to the fruits. True enough, we find accelerating invention and production of gadgets, labor-sav- ing mechanisms, entertainment and amusement devices. But people have not been taught to put added leisure to beneficial uses. The fruitage here is increasing idleness, aversion to the happiness of work, covetousness. These are false values, which only increase unhappiness and evils. An increasing segment of adolescents become frustrated, staring into the face of a hopeless future. The leaders of Tomorrow are becoming the beat gen- eration. Thepnnc pa contribution of Science and Technology has been the produc- tion of constantly more terrifying weap- ons of mass destruction. Pushbutton world? Yes, today either of two men could push a button and destroy two whole continents, probably ending in the extinction of mankind! Modern Science stands exposed as a FALSE MESSIAH-the Frankenstein Monster about to destroy us all!

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V TP l» p- .-.iv 1 - .rr LT « 7 76 haunting spectre of starvation overshado ( s ttye sumfnit of scientific acfiievement. Scientists, with their multi-billion dollar budgets, can send men to the moon, but cannet.iu- will not prevent forty million people a year from starving to death.

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