Why didn't Bible prophecy predict airplanes or the internet? The Bible was meant to be evidence for all generations across history, not optimized for the 21st century.

Winger's answer: if a prophecy refers to something fulfilled 2,000+ years in the future, it is useless as evidence to everyone who lived before that fulfillment. A prediction about airplanes would only be verifiable to people alive after 1903 — no value to billions of humans in prior centuries. By contrast, a prophecy about the destruction of Tyre, fulfilled within 300 years, is accessible to many more generations. The Bible's prophetic program is calibrated to be verifiable across the full sweep of human history. He would not present Daniel's 'many will go to and fro, knowledge will increase' as proof of airplanes because it is too vague to meet the criteria he already established.