David Mcraney writes:
\n In medical school, they tell you half of what you are about to learn won\u2019t be true when you graduate \u2014 they just don\u2019t know which half.<\/p>\n
In every field of knowledge, half of what is true today will one day be updated with better information, and it turns out that we actually know when that day will come for many academic pursuits.<\/p>\n
This is what author Sam Arbesman calls \u201cthe half-life of facts.\u201d The premise is that for every domain, silo, discipline, and school of knowledge, the facts contained within are slowly being overturned, augmented, replaced, and refined \u2014 and in medicine, for example, the rate of that overturning is high enough that if you never really complete your education. Medical school, in other words, never ends.<\/p>\n
… For instance, in physics, about half of all research findings will be disconfirmed within 13 years. In psychology, it\u2019s every seven. In other words, if you graduated with a degree in psychology seven years ago, half of the information in all your textbooks is now inaccurate.
\nBy contrast, the Bible claims to be the very \u201cWord of God.\u201d The fact that millions of people the world over have found that claim to be credible for 3,500 years proves that the truths that matter the most are not nullified by the passing of time or rendered pass\u00e9 by better information. There is no half-life to the truth that God loves us or that Jesus came into this world to die for the sins of mankind. These truths are grounded in God\u2019s unfailing nature and will never be overturned or replaced.
\n \u201cThe grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever\u201d (Isaiah 40:8).<\/p>\n
\u201cFor I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished\u201d (Matthew 5:18).
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1. \u201cThe half-life of facts,\u201d by David Mcraney, Boing Boing , August 21, 2017, < https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2017\/08\/21\/the-half-life-of-facts.html >.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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