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It is impossible to predict the future, for it is impossible to travel in time, but it is always possible to predict the future of a biological entity, and the whole of Humanity can be considered as a biological entity. Ifa primitive woman was inseminated by a scientist, the latter could predict this woman's future. He could predict that in nine months she would give birth to a child, and could even go so far as determining the sex of the child. ro 1 1 : we Ae c In the same way, we who are used to creating life on an infinity of planets, know what happens to a Humanity which has reached your level of technology, without having reached an equivalent level of wisdom. This is why, although we cannot predict the future of individuals, we can predict, however, what should normally happen to a living organism during the gestation period or to a Humanity in the course of its development. When the first cell is created in the mother’s womb by the meeting of the spermatozoon and the ovule, this first cell contains all the necessary information to create a complete being, able to accomplish a multitude of functions. And the more numerous the cells, the more numerous are the functions developed. The number of functions is proportional to the number of cells obtained by successive divisions, until the child is ready to be born, because only then does he become a complete organism, with all the organs which he will require to accomplish all the functions which will fill his every need. It is exactly the same thing for humanity, considering each human to be like a cell of the great being in gestation, that is, Humanity. The number of functions, of discoveries, and the technological level of Mankind is proportional to the number of humans. In this way, we can easily predict that the age of the Apocalypse will be achieved when Men are able to make the blind recover their sight with electronic prostheses, when Man’s voice will be carried beyond the oceans through satellite telecommunication, and when Man will be equal to those he had mistaken for “God”, by creating synthetic beings in a laboratory, etc. 292 INTELLIGENT DESIGN: MESSAGE FROM THE DESIGNERS