“No, no, you misunderstand! Just because man has grown in knowledge and technology throughout all recorded history doesn’t automatically prove the theory of evolution. Humanity – despite all the differences from planet to planet, star to star, system to system – is too similar for us to have evolved from amoeba to our current form. Too many coincidences for it to be statistically possible for the amount of separate civilizations that exist. I mean, come on! There has to be at least one thousand different known civilizations, various explorers document two or three new ones every GalCyc or so, and who knows how many have gone unreported or been destroyed.”
“Then how do you explain the origin of mankind? Surely by now we would have found whatever superior species created man by now. That’s the only other reasonable scientific explanation.”
“I couldn’t tell you for sure, everybody has their own beliefs. Most generally a god or gods depending on where you go.”
“Pffff, gods!”
“Really, you shouldn’t be so flippant.”
“Oh?”
“Yeah, search your records; no one seems to be willing to put their name to the theory of evolution. Really, how different is that theory over any other set of beliefs. That theory has been around as long as anyone can remember, yet there is not firm name as to who put forward the theory in the first place.”
“Wasn’t it Darvin or Parwim?”
“Shh, don’t interrupt. And see, even YOU don’t know who started it. It’s also never been scientifically proven and probably never will unless we learn to master time travel, heh.”
“I’m working on that. So since you seem to follow this branch of faith what is it that you believe?”
“Well mine’s kinda boring and long but I’ll tell you about the most amusing belief I’ve heard so far. It comes from a small cult near the lost region. They believe that there is a pantheon of gods and that we’re their game.”
“Game?!”
“Yes, they believe that in the beginning the gods were not too much unlike us, except far more powerful. They had a great civilization, learned all there was to know, and did all there was to do. Eventually they became bored and complacent and some just gave up existence. One of these gods – it’s unknown which – challenged another to a game. They each created a group of men with free will and desires not unlike the gods themselves. Since it was a game these men were given much less power and much shorter life spans than the gods. The challenge was to see who could influence their people to become the greatest civilization. Soon other gods joined in and made their own men and the game grew. The only rules of the game are that the gods cannot directly interfere with any of the men. To this day they’re still playing and who knows who is in the lead.”
“That’s a ridiculous theory! You can’t believe in that.”
“I never said I believed in it. I was just telling you the most amusing one I’ve heard so far. Keep in mind that this same cult also believes that this game originated on some distant planet called Arth or some-such.”
“Yes, you humans are quite a peculiar race.”
“Why thank you Jayne.”
-- Talks of God and Man
Dzur Icehand with Jayne
2039 GCT
“Then how do you explain the origin of mankind? Surely by now we would have found whatever superior species created man by now. That’s the only other reasonable scientific explanation.”
“I couldn’t tell you for sure, everybody has their own beliefs. Most generally a god or gods depending on where you go.”
“Pffff, gods!”
“Really, you shouldn’t be so flippant.”
“Oh?”
“Yeah, search your records; no one seems to be willing to put their name to the theory of evolution. Really, how different is that theory over any other set of beliefs. That theory has been around as long as anyone can remember, yet there is not firm name as to who put forward the theory in the first place.”
“Wasn’t it Darvin or Parwim?”
“Shh, don’t interrupt. And see, even YOU don’t know who started it. It’s also never been scientifically proven and probably never will unless we learn to master time travel, heh.”
“I’m working on that. So since you seem to follow this branch of faith what is it that you believe?”
“Well mine’s kinda boring and long but I’ll tell you about the most amusing belief I’ve heard so far. It comes from a small cult near the lost region. They believe that there is a pantheon of gods and that we’re their game.”
“Game?!”
“Yes, they believe that in the beginning the gods were not too much unlike us, except far more powerful. They had a great civilization, learned all there was to know, and did all there was to do. Eventually they became bored and complacent and some just gave up existence. One of these gods – it’s unknown which – challenged another to a game. They each created a group of men with free will and desires not unlike the gods themselves. Since it was a game these men were given much less power and much shorter life spans than the gods. The challenge was to see who could influence their people to become the greatest civilization. Soon other gods joined in and made their own men and the game grew. The only rules of the game are that the gods cannot directly interfere with any of the men. To this day they’re still playing and who knows who is in the lead.”
“That’s a ridiculous theory! You can’t believe in that.”
“I never said I believed in it. I was just telling you the most amusing one I’ve heard so far. Keep in mind that this same cult also believes that this game originated on some distant planet called Arth or some-such.”
“Yes, you humans are quite a peculiar race.”
“Why thank you Jayne.”
-- Talks of God and Man
Dzur Icehand with Jayne
2039 GCT
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