it will be the first time that the discovery has been made. However, twisting the argument round the other way, thistles do not normally grow on fig trees; no potential creator, worth his salt, would put less than himself into his creation. Either there is no God; or the flowering of creation through evolution will be the divinity of man.
The reader may still object, “You have said a lot about immortality in this world, has your theory anything to say about that, even if it cannot tell us anything about God?”. In considering immortality you must start with time. Pascal found the emptiness of space appalling; the double terror of the very small distances of science, and the very large. Since his day we have learned the abyss of time. No longer can we accept our existence and dissociate ourselves from the past with fairy-tales of our creation; we are compelled to see that countless cosmic and geological ages were necessary, before matter could evolve into us. Time is no longer the child's succession of events, nor the young man's succession of experiences, nor the adult's regret at the years passing and the contained fear of the approach of death. Time is now the increasing complexification of matter in evolution, the development of the central nervous system, and in particular the cerebralisation of man. This is inherent in the idea of the space-time continuum; time now takes on the essential nature of every phenomenon in the continuum: and the essential nature of both matter and spirit in evolution is that it becomes. The essence of time therefore must be geared to the essence of becoming.
But what happens when you arrive? Either evolution is heading for a goal, and if so, presumably one day it will arrive; or it is not, and then presumably it will go on like some mathematical series always changing but never arriving. If there is no goal, and no purpose except to keep the ship of life heading in the right direction, then except for a limited circumspect…