(January 2, 2012 at 5:38 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: Seriously - this kind of bullshit should only be believed by children and simpletons. It doesn't stand up to any kind of rational thought, nor does the evidence support that it happened, or even could have.
It doesn't even stand up to irrational thought, as evidenced by the literalists twisting themselves and the biblical fables into knots of Gordian proportions in a doomed attempt to get all the pieces to fit.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'