The Secret Of Life Does Not Lie

Science Is About Explaining The World, And Religion Is About Interpreting It. There Shouldn't Be Any Conflict.

It's Only Fashion That Has Said The Pendulum Has Swung From Extreme Skepticism About Extraterrestrial Life To Extreme Credulity. The Truth Is Somewhere In Between.

Cancer Cells Come Pre-programmed To Execute A Well-defined Cascade Of Changes, Seemingly Designed To Facilitate Both Their Enhanced Survival And Their Dissemination Through The Bloodstream. There Is Even An Air Of Conspiracy In The Way That Tumours Use Chemical Signals To Create Cancer-friendly Niches In Remote Organs.

If We Do Discover More Than One Type Of Life On Earth, We Can Be Fairly Certain That The Universe Is Teeming With It, For It Would Be Inconceivable That Life Started Twice Here But Never On All The Other Earth-like Planets.

When I Was A Student, The Laws Of Physics Were Regarded As Completely Off Limits. The Job Of The Scientist, We Were Told, Is To Discover The Laws And Apply Them, Not Inquire Into Their Provenance.