The diagnosis, mercifully, came in small portions. "Trouble urinating? You probably have an enlarged prostate; medication will help." "Blood in the urine? You probably have prostate cancer, but prostate cancer can be managed." Then, after a series of tests: "Sorry to report, but your cancer is a particularly aggressive form that has metastasized into your bones. Your life expectancy has been significantly shortened."

Galapagos II: My Search for the Meaning of Life as I Walked in Darwin's Footsteps

In the preparation required to write my new book on eternal life, I soon discovered that this subject raised all of the contemporary theological issues that threaten to destroy Christianity as we have known it. It was clear that I would have to turn the traditional religious approach around. I had to read the modern critics for whom the religious concepts of the past make no sense. I also had to come to a new understanding of what life itself means. Life after death cannot possibly be contemplated until one understands the wondrous and even mysterious dimensions of life before death. That study resulted in two immediate insights. First, I discovered the drive to survive deep in every specimen of life from the rainforests to human beings. Second, I found all life to be deeply interrelated and even linked through DNA. Armed with this information I now faced the fact that the work of Charles Darwin had rendered the basic tenets of traditional religion so suspect that if I were to speak of life after death with any credibility I would have to find a new starting place, perhaps outside of or beyond religion itself.

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