(September 10, 2014 at 8:36 pm)professor Wrote: Stimbo, that is a good question.
Maybe I can answer it by looking at the experience of Lot.
Yes, let's obscure a plot hole by throwing up a smokescreen from another bit of the book. Thanks for acknowledging it though.
As for the thousand-year spans of genesis, well they only become necessary to paper the plot hole dividing the literalist view of an actual six-day creation myth with the less primitive knowledge that the Universe wasn't created in six actual days. It falls apart when you have plants forced to sustain an existence for a thousand years on a sunless Earth though.
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.'