(October 10, 2015 at 1:30 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote:(October 10, 2015 at 1:16 pm)Stimbo Wrote: I'm wondering - though not even slightly seriously - what these worms ate before there were any 'sinners' on which to feed. Which raises another interesting question for our Daniel to ignore - did his god invent the concept of sin as a way of feeding the worms?
That's what I meant by "ecosystem". Clearly, they could not be there just as parasites on human flesh... so what does the rest of the food chain look like? Are there plants? Is there dirt, or is Doc right and they just live right in the lava? Is it based on sulfur-reducing lithotrophs, a la the ocean thermal-vent ecosystems? Inquiring minds want to know!
Hey, when you can just appeal to the magical powers of a Great Cosmic Wizard, why would you need to explain anything?
