In Time, [a Martian] Colony Would Grow To The Point Of Being Self- Sustaining. When This Stage Was Reached, Humanity Would Have A Precious Insurance Policy Against Catastrophe At Home. During The Next Millennium There Is A Significant Chance That Civilization On Earth Will Be Destroyed By An Asteroid, A Killer Plague Or A Global War. A Martian Colony Could Keep The Flame Of Civilization And Culture Alive Until Earth Could Be Reverse-colonized From Mars.

-Paul Davies

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In Time, [a Martian] Colony Would Grow

Paul Davies

In Time, [a Martian] Colony Would Grow To The Point Of Being Self- Sustaining. When This Stage Was Reached, Humanity Would Have A Precious Insurance Policy Against Catastrophe At Home. During The Next Millennium There Is A Significant Chance That Civilization On Earth Will Be Destroyed By An Asteroid, A Killer Plague Or A Global War. A Martian Colony Could Keep The Flame Of Civilization And Culture Alive Until Earth Could Be Reverse-colonized From Mars.

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Moon

People Take It For Granted That The Physical World Is Both Ordered And Intelligible. The Underlying Order In Nature - The Laws Of Physics - Are Simply Accepted As Given, As Brute Facts. Nobody Asks Where They Came From; At Least Not In Polite Company. However, Even The Most Atheistic Scientist Accepts As An Act Of Faith That The Universe Is Not Absurd, That There Is A Rational Basis To Physical Existence Manifested As Law-like Order In Nature That Is At Least Partly Comprehensible To Us. So Science Can Proceed Only If The Scientist Adopts An Essentially Theological Worldview.

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