(July 13, 2013 at 2:28 am)fr0d0 Wrote: I am me today because my creator made me.
His design was perfect for my purpose/ I couldn't be designed better.
I didn't evolve. This is my pure form.
My creator is undeniable, and independently verifiable.
This is why I am today. How about you?
D.N.A Wrote:This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in - an interesting hole I find myself in - fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise.
From his speech at Digital Biota 2, held at Magdelene College Cambridge, September 1998.
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.'
