Zoltan Kiss, Ph.D. is a biochemist and cell biologist by training, mostly interested in a better understanding of altered signaling inside and outside of cells that underline chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes, obesity, and their complications. After thirty years of basic research, he left academia and founded several biotechnological companies to develop better and fully tolerated treatments for these ailments.
Millions of highly specific and precise truly mind-boggling interactions among tens of thousands of different proteins and other cell constituents residing in many different cell types occur in the human body every second, ensuring the internal harmony of the human body. Although Kiss is a firm believer in the theory of the basic outlines of evolution, such immense complexity of the human body convinced him that there must be an organizing principle provided by a higher authority in preparation of the Big Bang, which gave some broad directions, but which allowed and still allows evolution and natural selection to take their course. An organizing principle also underlies the evolution of the Universe as directed by the extremely fine-tuned laws of nature also established by a higher authority. Kiss thinks that since neither materialist scientists nor theologists can prove how the creation of the Universe happened, this provides a fertile ground for their cooperation. He decided to write this book to expand on these ideas and promote such dialog.
On another level, the book also provides examples of how lives can be devastated or redeemed when the unknown and unknowable emotions residing in all of us come to surface. Are those unknowable emotions still part of our consciousness? What triggers them? Is consciousness something nonmaterial and will survive us, or it is solely material strictly depending on our brain’s activity? Doug, like all of us, struggles with these questions, but they remain a mystery for him just like for anybody else.