THE TALK Ninety people attended my talk with more on the waiting list. After Ken Konkle's kind introduction, I gave a 40 minute presentation with vugraphs that included some awesome Hubble photographs of galaxies 12 billion light year away. And awaiting us in the future of our future, and journeying with us along the path, will be that same God-our immanent, closest friend and our final home. Whitehead's philosophy is appropriate for answering this. God is the ground of novelty and order, yet he allows for freedom in humans and spontaneity in nature.
Cancer results from too much spontaneity in nature.
The cells just grow wild. Yet spontaneity is the source of creativity we see in the evolutionary process. Death is the price we pay for our freedom, our complexity, our individuality. Single cells don't really die. One cell just becomes two.