(July 19, 2014 at 8:25 am)whateverist Wrote: For that matter, why bother at all with an ark? If blinking every living thing into existence by magic was so easy to do the first time, why not go that route again? Perhaps consider a couple of upgrades?
Especially since the flood option did fuck all anyway. The idea, as I understand it, was to cleanse the world of sin and wickedness. Drowning everything under a superocean, except for a (supposedly) breeding population of all the lifeforms that gave rise to the wickedness, makes as much sense as ridding your garden of pernicious weeds by sterilising it with brine and then restocking everything that was originally in the garden including the weeds. If this god was anything other than imaginary, the Universe would truly be fucked.
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.'
