not less than twenty-eight features of life modification which will be of service to all Nebadon throughout all future time.
But the establishment of life on no world is ever experimental in the sense that something untried and unknown is attempted. The evolution of life is a technique ever progressive, differential, and variable, but never haphazard, uncontrolled, nor wholly experimental, in the accidental sense.
Many features of human life afford abundant evidence that the phenomenon
of mortal existence was intelligently planned, that organic evolution is not a
mere cosmic accident. When a living cell is injured, it possesses the ability to
elaborate certain chemical substances which are empowered so to stimulate
and activate the neighboring normal cells that they immediately begin the
secretion of certain substances which facilitate healing processes in the wound;
and at the same time these normal and uninjured cells begin to proliferate—they
actually start to work creating new cells to replace any fellow cells which
may have been destroyed by the accident.
This chemical action and reaction concerned in wound healing and cell reproduction represents the choice of the Life Carriers of a formula embracing over one hundred thousand phases and features of possible chemical reactions and biologic repercussions. More than half a million specific experiments were made by the Life Carriers in their laboratories before they finally settled upon this formula for the Urantia life experiment.
When Urantia scientists know more of these healing chemicals, they will become more efficient in the treatment of injuries, and indirectly they will know more about controlling certain serious diseases.
Since life was established on Urantia, the Life Carriers have improved this healing technique as it has been introduced on another Satania world, in that it affords more pain relief and exercises better control over the proliferation capacity of the associated normal cells.
There were many unique features of the Urantia life experiment, but the
two outstanding episodes were the appearance of the Andonic race prior to the
evolution of the six colored peoples and the later simultaneous appearance of
the Sangik mutants in a single family. Urantia is the first world in Satania where
the six colored races sprang from the same human family. They ordinarily arise
in diversified strains from independent mutations within the prehuman animal
stock and usually appear on earth one at a time and successively over long
periods of time, beginning with the red man and passing on down through the
colors to indigo.
Another outstanding variation of procedure was the late arrival of the Planetary Prince. As a rule, the prince appears on a planet about the time of will development; and if such a plan had been followed, Caligastia might have come to Urantia even during the lifetimes of Andon and Fonta instead of almost five hundred thousand years later, simultaneously with the appearance of the six Sangik races.
On an ordinary inhabited world a Planetary Prince would have been granted on the request of the Life Carriers at, or sometime after, the appearance of Andon and Fonta. But Urantia having been designated a life-modification planet, it was by preagreement that the Melchizedek observers, twelve in number, were sent as advisers to the Life Carriers and as overseers of the planet until
