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created the closest of these worlds. But perhaps we will find them farther on as we continue to search the universe, each time moving co. 1 red tod further away. In most cases, their planets approached the sun too closely, and life became impossible, or their sun exploded, or became too cold. Although we have not noticed anything abnormal at present in our system, all this makes us fear the worst.’ ‘So there is no religion where you live?’ ‘Our only religion is human genius. We believe only in that, and we particularly love the memory of our own creators whom we never saw again and whose world we have never been able to find. They must have disappeared. However, they had taken the precaution of putting a huge space station in orbit around our planet, containing all their knowledge, and this landed automatically when their world was destroyed. Thanks to them, we have taken on the torch, and we would like to see this torch taken up by the people of the Earth.’ ‘And what would happen if your planet was destroyed?’ ‘In case our world is destroyed, the same arrangements have been made in advance, so that you would automatically inherit all our 1 14 > ‘Do you really live ten times longer than we do?’ I asked. ‘Our body lives on average, ten times longer than yours,’ he m4 replied. ‘Like the first people of the Bible, that is between 750 and 1,200 years. But our mind, our true self, can be truly immortal. I have already explained to you that, starting with any cell of the body, we can re-create the whole person with new living matter. When we are in full possession of our faculties and our brain is at its maximum level of efficiency and knowledge, we surgically remove a tiny sample 108 INTELLIGENT DESIGN: MESSAGE FROM THE DESIGNERS ‘Unfortunately, we have been unable to find the civilizations who 414 ca ton 1 “wet knowledge.’ The Secret of Eternity