Helen

Predicting the Future

This week we’ve been in assembly looking at the idea of predicting the future...

In the year 1900 John Watkins, having spoken to the top scientists of his day, wrote an article making various predictions about the year 2000. The remarkable thing about his article is the number of predictions that were accurate: digital photography, wireless telephone, ready meals, increased height amongst Americans, along with many others. He did make a few predictions that were a little off target: that we’d all walk 10miles a day and the letters C, X, Q and Z would be redundant from our language! The BBC whose article gave me the inspiration for our assembly had spoken to some current leading scientists about the next 100 years – what can we expect to see? Everything from weather control and space elevators to our brains being linked to computers to get more power from them, excited?

Often the idea that Jesus’ birth had been predicted, well prophesied because God told people about the future rather than their own guess work, is often unknown by many. There were over 300 prophecies about the coming messiah from hundreds and hundreds of years before Jesus birth and during Jesus life, death and resurrection. He fulfilled all of them. A couple of astrophysicists worked out that the chance of a man fulfilling just 8 of these prophecies is 1 in one hundred quarillion (100, 000, 000, 000, 000, 000). Yet Jesus fulfilled over 300.

Facts and numbers are exciting, although without thinking how they impact us they are just nice numbers cluttering up our minds. We encouraged the students to reflect on what they want to see change and develop in the next 100years, and what or who was going to inspire and encourage them to see those dreams happen. 

Emily