him. "I thought not." "But that doesn't mean they're not there. The first time was in a placenta from the garbage can. We had been culturing polio viruses in human placentas (very interesting personalities viruses are, too) and I'd been sent a whole placenta more than I needed. What can a mother tell a placenta which has been doing its work and is still in excellent shape, just like that civilization in the Phoenix Nebula some two and a half millennia ago? Does she say, 'There's nothing more for you in time or space; the baby is born, I abandon you to utter nothingness'? Very rarely. And even then she doesn't mean it. But the life does go out of the cells. And disperses to God, glorifying Him in no uncertain terms. This is what I heard and saw, with a God-given perception which is not in my eyes and ears." "You don't mean intuition, surely," he objected disgustedly. "Let me put it another way with another question. With what ears do you hear the music of the spheres?" "You are too much the poet. I don't follow you." He was puzzled. "To be very prosaic, then, how do you sense the 'turnover' or change in energy level of the lone electron of a hydrogen atom in interstellar space?" "By deduction from whatever type of recording is made from a radiotelescope." "You have no physical nerve endings to sense this directly?" "Of course not." "But you are quite sure, nevertheless, that so gross a creature as man may be aware of so slight an emission of energy?" "Yes." "And that what man can be aware of, God is also aware of?" "It follows, if God is aware at all." "If there is a God, then, there wouldn't be much chance that He didn't know about such gross creatures as the men of the Phoenix? Excuse me ... I've gone far afield. You said the radiotelescope. Well, a few other doctors and I have been working on an instrument to measure cellular action currents—in living cells, of course; and I had added an auxiliary component which was supposed to find out what became of certain suspected possible energy
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