The Eerie Silence: Are We Alone In

You've Got To Get Away From The Idea Cancer Is A Disease To Be Cured. It's Not A Disease Really. The Cancer Cell Is Your Own Body, Your Own Cells, Just Misbehaving And Going A Bit Wrong, And You Don't Have To Cure Cancer. You Don't Have To Get Rid Of All Those Cells. Most People Have Cancer Cells Swirling Around Inside Them All The Time And Mostly They Don't Do Any Harm, So What We Want To Do Is Prevent The Cancer From Gaining Control. We Just Want To Keep It In Check For Long Enough That People Die Of Something Else.

Scientists Are Slowly Waking Up To An Inconvenient Truth - The Universe Looks Suspiciously Like A Fix. The Issue Concerns The Very Laws Of Nature Themselves.

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.

No Attempt To Explain The World, Either Scientifically Or Theologically, Can Be Considered Successful Until It Accounts For The Paradoxical Conjunction Of The Temporal And The Atemporal, Of Being And Becoming. And No Subject Conforms This Paradoical Conjuction More Starkly Than The Origin Of The Universe.

Through My Scientific Work I Have Come To Believe More And More Strongly That The Physical Universe Is Put Together With An Ingenuity So Astonishing That I Cannot Accept It As A Brute Fact....i Cannot Believe That Our Existence In This Universe Is A Mere Quirk Of Fate, An Accident Of History, An Incidental Blip In The Great Cosmic Drama.