Cancer Is Such A Ruthless

In The Frantic Search For An Elusive 'cure,' Few Researchers Stand Back And Ask A Very Basic Question: Why Does Cancer Exist? What Is Its Place In The Grand Story Of Life?

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.

Most Life On Earth Is Microbes. We've Only Just Scratched The Surface Of The Microbial Realm. Probably Less Than .1% Of Microbes Have Been Classified Let Alone Cultured Or Had Their Genes Sequenced, So Really That Microbial Realm Is A Mystery.

Cosmologists Have Attempted To Account For The Day-to-day Laws You Find In Textbooks In Terms Of Fundamental 'superlaws,' But The Superlaws Themselves Must Still Be Accepted As Brute Facts. So Maybe The Ultimate Laws Of Nature Will Always Be Off-limits To Science.

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.