Timeline for 1880s to 1950s CE

1891 CE Beginning of wireless telegraphy

1893 CE Henry Ford builds his first car1895 CE W. Rontgen discovers x-rays (G)C. von Linde constructs a machine for the liquefaction of air (G)1896 CE Annual Nobel Prizes established for physics, physiology and medicine, chemistry, literature, and peace (G)A.H. Becquerel discovers radioactivity1897 CE J.J. Thomson discovers electron (G)1899 CE J. Ward: ''Naturalism and Agnosticism''

First magnetic recording of sound (G)

1897 CE First Zionist Congress

1900 CE

Laodicea (1900 to present day)
Apostasy

Commendation given concerning this church and the related church age:

NONE given!

''All six of the previous churches had at least one word of commendation, but this church has none.''

Condemnation given: ''...they are characterized by lukewarmness. ... characterized by richness in worldly goods, but are self-deceived for they are spiritually poor, blind and naked. This is a very good descripton of the Apostate church. ... Apostasy can be defined as the departure from the truth that one professed to have. ... is a departure from the truth they professed to have because of an affiliation with a particular church.''

(Quotations from Fruchtenbaum)

From the early 1900s to the present, that is, the 20th Century discoveries all revisit the exact nature of our origins with new scientific evidence from many disciplines. From theory to material evidence... the data undercut Darwin's naturalistic philosophy, but reversing the trend started by Darwin's thinking only begins with those thinking about an intelligent designer- at the end of the century in the 1990s.

Technical science will begin to gather evidence that in effect supports the biblical perspective from this point on. Science paradigms will be subject to change later in this century and into the new millennium.

1900 CE Freud: ''The Interpretation of Dreams'' (G)

Max Planck formulates quantum theory

First trial flight of Zeppelin

1901 CE W.H. Nernst postulates the ''third law of thermodynamics'' (G)

1903 CE Wright brothers successfully fly a powered airplane

R.A. Zsigmondy invents the ultramicroscope (G)

1904 CE Freud: ''The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (G)

Work begins on Panama Canal

First telegraphic transmission of photographs, Germany

1900 CE Shintoism reinstated in Japan against Buddist influence (G)

1903 CE Anti-Jewish pogroms in Russia (G)

1904 CE Church and State separated in France (G)

Max Weber: ''The Protestant Ethic and the Birth of Capitalism'' (G)

Formulates Special Theory of Relativity; establishes law of mass-energy equivalence; creates Brownian theory of motion; and formulates the photon theory of light (G)

1905 CE

1906 CE Harden discovers cases of catalysis among enzymes (G)

1907 CE Ross Harrison develops tissue culture techniques

1908 CE H. Kamerlingh Onnes liquefies helium

1909 CE Lenin: ''Materialism and Empiric Criticism''

Peary reaches North Pole (G)

First commercial manufacture of Bakelite marks beginning of Plastic Age (G)

1907 CE Papal encyclical ''Pascendi gregis'' condemns modernism (G)

1909 CE Jewish world population: Russia, 5.2 million; Austria-Hungary, 2 million; US, 1.7 million; Germany 600 thousand; Turkey, 400 thousand; France, 100 thousand (G)

Charles D. Walcott, Director of Smithsonian Institution, makes vast fossil find in Burgess Shale in British Columbia, Canada. This find illustrates immense explosion of life forms at about 560 MYA. (See Cambrian explosion) This evidence is not publicized until mid 1980s!
Evidence that severely constricts or negates Darwin's Theory.

1910 CE Prince Albert I of Monaco founds Institute for Oceanography (G)

1911 CE R. Amundsen reaches the South Pole (G)

Rutherford formulates his theory of atomic structure (G)

1913 CE Niels Bohr formulates his theory of atomic structure (G)

Composition of chlorophyll discovered by Richard Willstatter (G)

H.N. Russell formulates theory of stellar evolution

1917 CE - British capture Jerusalem from Turks and from 1921 to 1947 Jerusalem is ruled under British Mandate.

1914 CE

1915 CE - General Theory of Relativity

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1915 CE Ford develops a farm tractor (G)

First transcontinental telephone call between A.G. Bell (New York) and Dr. Watson (San Francisco) (G)

1916 CE Sir Arthur Eddington investigates the physical properties of stars (G)

1917 CE C.G. Jung: ''Psychology of the Unconscious'' (G)

Freud: ''introduction to Psychoanalysis'' (G)

100-inch reflecting telescope installed at Mt. Wilson, CA (G)

1918 CE Controversy over new psychology of Freud and Jung (G)

H. Shapley discovers the true dimensions of the Milky Way (G)

1919 CE Thomas Morgan: ''The Physical Basis of Heredity'' (G)

Rutherford demonstrates the atom is not final building block of the universe (G)

1916 CE Martin Buber: ''The Spirit of Judaism'' (G)

1917 CE Balfour Declaration - collapse of Ottoman rule opened way for Zionists to work toward establishing a homeland. By this declaration Britian endorsed establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

1918 CE Leonard Wooley begins Babylonian excavations (G)

1919 CE Church and State separated in Germany (G)

1920 CE Samuel Alexander: ''Space, Time, and Deity,'' English metaphysical realism (G)

Arthur Stanley Eddington: ''Space, Time, and Gravitation'' (G)

Harvey Cushing develops new techniques in brain surgery (G)

1921 CE Chromosome theory of heredity postulated by Thomas Hunt Morgan (G)

Edgar Dacque initiates phylogenetically oriented paleontology (G)

Nobel Prize to Einstein for discovery of photoelectric effect (G)

1923 CE Edwin P. Hubble discovers a distance-indicating cepheid variable star in the Andromeda nebula (G)

1924 CE R.C. Andrews discovers skulls and skeletons of Mesozoic dinosaurs in the Gobi Desert (G)

Patent application for ionoscope (TV) filed by V.K. Zworikin (G)

1920s CE Jewish-Arab violence breaks out in Palestine - bombings and murders.

1922 CE British Mandate: On the way to establishing the 'Land' (future Israel) - the British obtained a mandate to administer Palestine and Transjordan (now Jordan) from the League of Nations.

1924 CE Gandhi fasts for 21 days in protest against the political and religious feuds of the Hindus and Moslems in India (G)

1925 CE Heisenberg, Bohr, and Jordan develop quantum mechanics for atoms (G)

John T. Scopes, schoolteacher, goes on trial for violating Tennessee law that prohibits teaching of the theory of evolution; defended by C. Darrow (prosecutor, Wm. J. Bryan); Scopes convicted, then acquitted on technicality (G)

1926 CE Robert H. Goddard fires the first liquid fuel rocket (G)

Werner Heisenberg further develops the quantum theory (G)

Thomas H. Morgan: ''The Theory of the Gene'' (G)

1927 CE T.H. Morgan: ''Experimental Embryology'' (G)

1928 CE J.L. Baird demonstrates color TV (G)

Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin (G)

Geiger and Muller construct the ''Geiger counter'' (G)

1929 CE Einstein: ''Unified Field Theory'' (G)

Hubble measures red shifts in spectra of extragalactic nebulae (G)

1925 CE Hebrew University founded in Jerusalem (G)

1926 CE R.H. Tawney: ''Religion and the Rise of Capitalism'' (G)

1928 CE New edition of ''Encyclopedia Judaica'' released (G)

1930 CE Alfred Rosenberg: ''The Myth of the 20th Century,'' Nazi philosophy (G)

Eddington attempts to unify general relativity and the quantum theory (G)

E.O. Lawrence pioneers development of cyclotron (G)

Planet Pluto discovered (G)

1933 CE C.G. Jung: ''Modern Man in Search of a Soul'' and ''Psychology and Religion'' (G)

Nobel Prize: T.H. Morgan for the heredity transmission functions of chromosomes (G)

The theory that Neanderthal Man is in the line of descent of Homo Sapiens is rejected following the discovery of the Steiheim skull (G)

1934 CE Enrico Fermi suggests that neutrons and protons are the same fundamental particles in two different quantum states (G)

1936 CE Dr. Alexis Carrel develops artificial heart (G)

1937 CE Insulin used to control diabetes

1939 CE Joliot - Curie demonstrates possibility of splitting the atom (G)

Paul Muller synthesizes DDT

Nobel Prize: E.O. Lawrence for development of cyclotron (G)

1930s CE Nazi atrocities sweep and disrupt Europe. Many Jews move to Palestine - many do so even in the face of restrictions impossed by British.

1930 CE Einstein: ''About Zionism'' (G)

1931 CE Jehovah's Witnesses formed from International Bible Students Association (G)

1933 CE E.W. Barnes: ''Scientific Theory and Religion'' (G)

Cardinal von Faulhaber (Munich): ''Judaism - Christendom - Germanism,'' anti-Nazi treatise (G)

1934 CE William Temple: ''Nature, Man and God'' (G)

1937 CE Martin Niemoller, Protestant parson of Berlin-Dahlem, interned in a concentration camp by Hitler (to 1945) (G)

1936 to 1939 CE Arab revolt against British rule and influx of Jewish immigrants. Britian responds militarily - thousands of Arabs killed. Later both Jews and Arabs resent British presence. Futher resistance to British idea of partitioning the Palestine into Jewish and Arab areas.

1939 CE

1940 CE First electron microscope demonstrated by RCA (G)

C.G. Jung: ''The Interpretation of Personality'' (G)

1941 CE ''Manhattan Project'' of intensive atomic research begins (G)

1942 CE Fermi splits the atom (G)

First electronic brain or automatic computer developed in US (G)

Magnetic recording tape invented (G)

Bell Aircraft tests first US jetplane (G)

1943 CE Waksman and Schatz discover streptomycin (G)

1944 CE Quinine synthesized

1945 CE First atomic bomb detonated in US (G)

1946 CE Xerography process invented by Chester Carlson (G)

1948 CE Arthur Keith: ''A New Theory of Human Evolution'' (G)

Long playing record invented (G)

US tests rocket that reaches range of 78 miles (G)

Alfred C. Kinsey: ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Male'' (G) [findings by Kinsey contested in 1990s and appear to misrepresent fact, yet still commonly quoted or accepted]

1949 CE USSR tests its first atomic bomb (G)

1942 CE C.S. Lewis: ''The Screwtape Letters'' (G)

1943 CE The US Supreme Court rules children need not salute flag in schools if it is against their religion, in case brought by Jehovah's Witnesses (reverses 1940 decision) (G)

1946 CE Armed clashes in Palestine result in deaths of 212 Arabs, Jews, and British soldiers.

1946 CE Jewish underground bomb King David Hotel (where British administrators worked) in Jerusalem, killing 91.

With the horror of the Holocaust revealed, sympathy and surpport for a Jewish state on rise - Jewish immigrants press to move to Palestine.

1947 CE The Dead Sea Scrolls, dating from approximately 22 BCE to 100 CE, are discovered in Wadi Qumran (G)

1948 CE W.R. Inge: ''Mysticism in Religion'' (G)

World Council of Churches organized in Amsterdam (G)

1947 -1948 CE

November 1947 - UN General Assembly adopts plan to divide Palestine into a Jewish and Paletinian states. Jewish Agency votes for and Arabs vote against.

May 1948 - British drop mandate - Israel declared a state. Arab armies immediately attack. Fighting for 15 months, 12,000 killed, cease-fire declared in April 1949. Conflict results in greater territory for Israel. Some 750 thousand Palestinians flee to neighbor states.

1950 CE Einstein: ''General Field Theory'' (attempt to expand Theory of Relativity) (G)

1951 CE Electric power produced from atomic energy at Acron, Idaho (G) 1952 CE US detonates hydrogen bomb (G)1953 CE B.F. Skinner: ''Science and Human Behavior'' (G)Mazel discovers Cave Cougnac, near Gourdon containing prehistoric paintings (G)USSR explodes hydrogen bomb (G)W. Le Gross Clark proves the Piltdown Man to have been a hoax (G)

1954 CE Known chemical elements at the time of birth of Jesus: 9; around 1500: 12; around 1900: 84; in 1954: 100. (G)

1950 CE Pope Pius XII proclaims the dogma of the bodily assumption of the Virgin Mary (G)

25 Protestant and four Eastern Orthodox Church groups organize National Council of the Churches of Christ in US; 32 million members (G)

1952 CE - Copper Scroll found. Its Hebrew text describes hiding places for Temple implements outside Jerusalem—reliability of this information remains in question. (IP)

1952 CE Norman Vincent Peale: ''The Power of Positive Thinking'' (G)

The ''Revised Standard Version'' of the Bible, prepared by 32 scholars over 15 years, published for Protestants (G)

1954 CE Billy Graham holds evangelistic meetings in New York, London, and Berlin

World Council of Churches convened at Evanston, IL (G)

1955 CE Edmund Wilson: ''The Dead Sea Scrolls'' (G)

1953 CE - Experimental (laboratory) evidence suggesting molecules required for life can arise from 'primordial conditions.'

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Chemical Evolution
Experiment Fails to Explain Origins

Interpretations of results are misleading. See WindowView's article on Icons or see booklist link for Icons of Evolution by Jonathan Wells for a reasonable discussion of why this is not sound evidence in support of evolution.

1956 CE Neutrino, an atomic particle with no electric charge produced at Los Alamos Lab. (G)

Bell Telephone Company begins to develop ''visual telephone'' (G)

Transatlantic cable telephone service inaugurated (G)

1957 CE USSR launches Sputnik I and II, first earth satellites (G)

Fred Hoyle: ''Man and Materialism'' (G)

1958 CE US artificial earth satellite Explorer I launched from Cape Canaveral (G)

US establishes NASA to administer scientific exploration of space (G)

1959 CE USSR launches rocket with two monkeys aboard (G)

First Intl. Congress of Oceanography held in New York (G)

Nobel Prize to S. Ochoa and A. Kornberg for their synthesis of RNA and DNA

1955 to 1965 - Jerusalem divided. Jordanians rule over Old City.

1956 CE Suez Crisis

1957 CE Kathleen Kenyon: ''Digging up Jericho'' (G)

1958 CE Supreme Religious Center for World Jewry dedicated in Jerusalem (G)