Sycamore School Road Ft. Cars, trucks, and people were hurled into the icy waters beneath and 20 persons lost their lives. The bridge had been standing for many years, and the public took its reliability for granted. Engineers who plan and build bridges calculate stresses and strains carefully and always allow a wide margin of safety.
Bridge failures are therefore rare.
Like most disasters, they are always unexpected. Thinking people today, in view of the rising might of communism, the inherent weaknesses of democracy, the great increases in immorality and crime, and the ecological crisis, are beginning to wonder whether or not our present culture can survive. But the vast majority of people, in spite of all the warning signals, are confident that our civilization will continue indefinitely. John Doe, average citizen has an unshakable confidence in the status quo. The Bible, however, has a good deal to say about the course of human history.