Arthur C. Clarke, author of numerous books including 2001: A Space Odyssey lives on in Sri lanka at the age of 90. His writings did more than any others (except perhaps Asimov, Bradbury and Heinlein) to advance the religious interest of evolutionary dogma through the science fiction genre.

One of the three last surviving World War I veterans died last week in Ohio. He was 109 years old, and a living reminder of the “war to end all wars”—one of the darkest moments in the history of humanity.

Aldous Huxley was born in the 19th century, and would write Brave New World in 1932, but his widow and biographer died last week at the age of 90. Both Aldous and his brother Thomas were revolutionaries in the cause of atheistic humanism, and advocates for applying the presuppositions of evolutionary theory to all various academic disciplines. The New York Times reports that “In 1963, as Mr. Huxley was dying of cancer, Mrs. Huxley ministered to him by injecting him with LSD and by reading aloud to him from the manuscript of The Psychedelic Experience, by Timothy Leary and others.”

The greatest spokesmen against Communist oppression, and one of the top heroes of the 20th century yet lives—-Alexander Solzhenitsyn. He was born December 11, 1918.

One month earlier, on November 7, 1918, the man who would become the most prominent evangelical of the 20th century was born. And at the age of 89, Billy Graham lives.

Finally, at the time of this writing, supercentenarian Edna Parker of Indiana, lives on at the age of 114, an is recognized as the oldest living person on earth. She was born on April 20, 1893, a child of the the nineteenth century. She was born the same year that both composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and President Rutherford B. Hayes died. That year Americans wrongfully overthrew the government of Queen Liliuokalani in Hawaii; Edison finished construction of the first motion picture studio; the New York Stock Exchanged crashed and a depression was launched. She married the year before the Titanic sank, lived most of her life in the 20th century, and now has thirteen great-great-grandchildren in the 21st century. She has vivid memories of three distinct centuries, and outlived her husband by 68 years.