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ple of this is that, in the past, people rarely lived to a 100 years; to-
day many people survive to that age.
According to the United Nations Department of National
Population, over the past few years, the world’s population has

continued on its remarkable transition from a high rate of birth
and death to one of low birth and death rates. The substance of this
transition has been the growth in the number and proportion of
older persons. Such a rapid, large and pervasive increase has nev-

er been seen in the history of civilization. 21
This increase in life expectancy must have a cause. The de-
velopment of health services due to the advance of medical tech-
nology has made such a situation possible. In addition, develop-

ments in genetics and the rapidly advancing Human Genome
Project are about to incept a totally new era in the field of health.
These advances are of a proportion that people living in earlier

times could never even have imagined. Based on all these devel-
opments, we can say that people living in our time have reached
the long and healthy life described in the above hadith.

Education:

A significant difference that distinguishes the twentieth and

twenty-first centuries from previous ages is the advance in litera-
cy. In earlier times, the ability to read and write belonged to a par-
ticular group of people who were privileged in status, whereas,
towards the end of the twentieth century, UNESCO and other

government and private organizations, have organized cam-
paigns throughout the world to counter this trend. This mobiliza-
tion of educational resources, with its attendant technological in-

novations and humanitarian services, has borne fruit in our time.

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)
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