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

If You Get A Drill And Drill Down 5km Beneath The Ground, It's Teeming With Life - Millions Of Tiny Living Fossils. They Resemble The Earliest Life Forms And Suggest That Life Started Under The Ground. The Bible Talks Of Eden As A Sunny Parkland With White Fluffy Clouds, But It Probably Ascended From The Region That We Now Associate With Hell.

I Should Say We Know That There Are Many, Many Other Earths Out There. We're Almost Certain That There Will Be Upwards Of A Billion Earth-like Planets In Our Galaxy Alone, So There Is No Lack Of Real Estate Where Life Might Happen, But What We Don't Know Is How Likely It Is Given The Real Estate, Given A Wonderful Pristine Planet Like Earth How Likely Is It That Life Will Pop Up Inhabited? We Don't Know The Answer To That.

It Will Be In The Convergence Of Evolutionary Biology, Developmental Biology And Cancer Biology That The Answer To Cancer Will Lie. Nor Will This Confluence Be A One-way Street.

The Problem Here Is That A Civilization That Is 1,000 Light Years Away Doesn't Know We Exist. They Don't Know That We Have Radio Telescopes Here On Earth Because They See Earth As It Was 1,000 Years Ago. Nothing Can Travel Faster Than Light, So However Good Their Instruments They Can't See In Affect The Future. So There Is No Particular Reason They Should Be Sending Us Messages At This Time.