{"id":37965,"date":"2020-09-11T12:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T12:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/sum-of-human-knowledge-would-fit-into-your-local-walmart\/"},"modified":"2020-09-11T12:48:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T12:48:00","slug":"sum-of-human-knowledge-would-fit-into-your-local-walmart","status":"publish","type":"sermon-illustrations","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/sum-of-human-knowledge-would-fit-into-your-local-walmart\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sum of Human Knowledge Would Fit into Your Local Walmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we compare the sum of human knowledge today with what it was just 100 years ago, we are sometimes tempted to think ourselves advanced. Collectively, we have accumulated a great deal of knowledge in recent years. The internet represents the amazing breath of human knowledge.<\/p>\n\n<p>According to current estimates, the web is just over 1 million exabytes in size. An exabyte is 1 billion billion bytes. If you were to download the entire web, it would take approximately 11 trillion years.<\/p>\n\n<p>Of course, not everything on the Internet can pass as knowledge. Still, that is a lot of information. But while that knowledge may seem vast beyond comprehension, it is not infinite. It is quite small in fact.<\/p>\n\n<p>According to one telecommunications company, you could store all of that data (every TedTalk, every course syllabus, every Facebook rant, and every cat video) on approximately half a million 2 terabyte hard drives. These hard drives could easily fit into one large 80,000 square feet room. Your local Walmart is around 180,000 square feet. Imagine that for a moment. The breadth of human knowledge can be stored in a space where you shop for groceries.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-article-subhead2\">Possible Preaching Angle:<\/h2>\n\n<p><em>Our knowledge is truly vast, but it is the height of arrogance to assume we are approaching anywhere near the sum of what can be known. &ldquo;Claiming to be wise, they became fools,&rdquo; (Rom. 1:22)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"template":"","tax_ctp_audience":[],"tax_ctp_authors":[],"tax_ctp_categories":[165],"tax_ctp_format":[171],"tax_ctp_illustration_types":[410],"tax_ctp_multimedia":[],"tax_ctp_point_editor":[],"tax_publications":[140],"tax_ctp_tags":[3436,3655,3726,3869,3930,4002,4186,4256,4272,4330,4444,4565,5129,5208,5279,5280],"tax_ctp_topics":[400],"class_list":["post-37965","sermon-illustrations","type-sermon-illustrations","status-publish","hentry","tax_publications-ct-pastors","tax_ctp_tags-arrogance","tax_ctp_tags-computers","tax_ctp_tags-culture","tax_ctp_tags-entertainment","tax_ctp_tags-facts","tax_ctp_tags-foolishness","tax_ctp_tags-humanism","tax_ctp_tags-insight","tax_ctp_tags-internet","tax_ctp_tags-knowledge","tax_ctp_tags-media","tax_ctp_tags-omniscience-of-god","tax_ctp_tags-technology","tax_ctp_tags-understanding","tax_ctp_tags-wisdom","tax_ctp_tags-wisdom-of-god"],"acf":{"scripture_references":[{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null},{"first_verse":null,"add_second_verse":false,"second_verse":null}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Sum of Human Knowledge Would Fit into Your Local Walmart - CT Pastors<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/preaching\/sermon-illustrations\/sum-of-human-knowledge-would-fit-into-your-local-walmart\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Sum of Human Knowledge Would Fit into Your Local Walmart - CT Pastors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"When we compare the sum of human knowledge today with what it was just 100 years ago, we are sometimes tempted to think ourselves advanced. 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