While I myself recognize the validity of the theory of evolution, I must admit that these people at UDN have some juice behind their theories, assuming of course that you believe in an deity that can’t help but fiddle with the squishy bits every so often. Personally, I like my Creator a bit more concentrating on the Big Picture and letting us get on with our lives, but that’s just me.
(This got sent to me by the atheistic physicist living in my basement. Excuse me, the atheistic physicist with a PhD living in my basement, thank you very much.)
I also appreciated this comment from their FAQ:
Aren’t you worried about going to hell for insulting the Lord and his works?
Hey, read the Bible. Most people are already going to hell for crop rotation and 50-50 cotton/polyester T-shirts. Hey, did you know the word for hell came from the nasty garbage dump outside Jerusalem? If the Jews had been promised New York instead, we’d all be worried about going to New Jersey.
Well, except for the NJ crack.
If there are gods (and really, why else would one of the ten commandments be so based in self-doubt as to have to dictate no other gods–oh, sure, they’d have to be false, those other gods), then who’s to say we didn’t get a so-so performer? In fact, maybe we’re just an old child god’s school project sitting on a closet shelf, gathering dust, forgotten. Maybe the reason the old testament is so grouchy and the new testament is so much kinder and gentler is because our god was going through the deific equivalent of the terrible twos. I can hear it now: “Mine mine mine! I’m the god! Me me me!” Which, given the whole “in God’s image” thing, makes a backwards kind of sense.
In fact, I wonder if Giblets hasn’t inadvertently realized a dream. That would explain everything–can you become a god and not know it?
charley, that reminds me of a line from the episode of the Simpsons where Homer becomes a missionary:
Native: “If God is all-powerful, why should he care whether we worship him or not?”
Homer: “Because God is powerful but insecure, like Barbra Streisand before James Brolin. Oh, he’s been a rock.”