Immigrants sometimes bring innovation to their host countries. According to [https://hbr.org/2017/04/research-immigr ... innovation]this study in the Harvard Business Review[/url], immigrants to the US made up 19.6% of all inventors in the US. Today, it's about 30%. It's arguable that immigrants and refugees have played a significant role in American innovation --
A partial list of immigrants to the US who invented and innovated things --
Alexander Graham Bell (Scotland)
Nikolai Tesla (Serbia)
Irving Berlin (Russia)
Albert Einstein (Germany)
Philip Emeagwali (Nigeria) - developed the use of microprocessors to power the Internet
Sergey Brin (Russia) founder of Google
Adolph Levitt (Russia) inventor of the doughnut
David Lindquist (Sweden) - the elevator
James Hillier (Canada), Ladislaus Marton (Belgium) and Vladimir Zworykin (Russia) helped develop the first commercially viable radio microscope
Jacob Davis (Lithuania) and Levi Strauss (Germany) invented blue jeans
Louis Lassen (Denmark) - the Hamburger
Steve Job's father was a refugee from Syria
Charles Feltman (Germany) - the hot dog
Jawed Karim (Germany) and Steven Chen (Taiwan) - YouTube
Henry John Heinz (German) - Ketchup
Gene Simmons (Israel)
Eddie Van Halen (The Netherlands)
John Augustus Röbling (Germany) designer of the Brooklyn Bridge
Louis-Joseph Chevrolet (Switzerland)
William Colgate (England) - toothpaste
James Hoban (Ireland) - designer of the White House
Viktor Grünbaum (Austria) - The shopping mall
Mario Molina (Mexico) Nobel prize-winning chemist
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (India) Nobel prize-winning physicist
Andrew Grove (Hungary) - helped found Intel
Amar Bose - born into an immigrant family from India - founder of Bose
Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah ( Lebanon) - televisions and LCD screens
Michael DeBakey - born to Lebanese immigrants - developed MASH units as well as surgery techniques and telehealth
Taher Elgamal (Egypt) - logarithms for Internet security
Heddy Lamarr (Austria) - radio-frequency "hopping," a precursor to Wi-Fi.
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“It’s easy to make everything a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.” — Brandon L. Bradford
Ernie wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 12:34 pm
3. For Abraham and Isaac, migration was a way to build faith. (People who stay at the same place often lose faith due to complacency.)
Care to expound?
Abraham could have stayed in Ur, where life was more predictable. But leaving Ur, living in tents, and becoming a Nomad had something to do with faith and dependence on God. God warned the Israelites to not forget him when they moved into more permanent housing. I think the same concern is just as applicable today as in Old Testament times. I think a lot of Anabaptists are "forgetting God", and might not forget Him if their living/lifestyle was less "permanent".
It is hard to find many people who are willing to "forsake all" like Abraham and move to a strange place, even when they have maps, google maps, and satellite views of the place they will move to. Imagine moving somewhere with none of this.
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The old woodcutter spoke again. “It is impossible to talk with you. You always draw conclusions. Life is so vast, yet you judge all of life with one page or one word. You see only a fragment. Unless you know the whole story, how can you judge?"
Ernie wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 12:34 pm
3. For Abraham and Isaac, migration was a way to build faith. (People who stay at the same place often lose faith due to complacency.)
Care to expound?
Abraham could have stayed in Ur, where life was more predictable. But leaving Ur, living in tents, and becoming a Nomad had something to do with faith and dependence on God. God warned the Israelites to not forget him when they moved into more permanent housing. I think the same concern is just as applicable today as in Old Testament times. I think a lot of Anabaptists are "forgetting God", and might not forget Him if their living/lifestyle was less "permanent".
It is hard to find many people who are willing to "forsake all" like Abraham and move to a strange place, even when they have maps, google maps, and satellite views of the place they will move to. Imagine moving somewhere with none of this.
Wilderness and wandering in the wilderness are significant themes in the Bible. The wilderness is a place of hardship, but also a place of significant spiritual growth. The Hebrews experienced a number of significant migrations (such as the escape from slavery in Egypt) as well as exile in a foreign kingdom. God's presence and work during these times played a foundational part of the Hebrew's identity ("I am the LORD your God who brought you out of Egypt"). It's a reason why the Hebrews were commanded to treat the foreiners or aliens among them well, because they also experienced being the foreigner.
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“It’s easy to make everything a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.” — Brandon L. Bradford