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Robert A. Heinlein - A Comedy Of Justice
Atec Февраль 27 2008 02:52:13
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. But around six thousand years not the billion years or so the big-bangers need.'
'Alec... your universe is about twenty-three billion years old.' '
I started to retort, closed my mouth. I will not flatly contradict my hostess.
She added, 'And your universe was created in four thousand and four BC.'
I stared at the water long enough for Sybil to surface and splash us.
'Well, Alec?ґ
'You've left me with nothing to say.'
'But notice carefully what I did say. I did not say that the world was created twenty-three billion years ago; I said that was its age. It was created old. Created with fossils in the ground and craters on the moon, all speaking of great age. Created that way by Yahweh, because it amused Him to do so. One of those scientists said, "God does not roll dice with the universe." Unfortunately not true. Yahweh rolls loaded dice with His universe... to deceive His creatures.'
'Why would He do that?'
'Lucifer says that it is because He is a poor Artist, the sort who is always changing his mind and scraping the canvas. And a practical joker. But I'm really not entitled to an opinion; I'm not at that level. And Lucifer is prejudiced where His Brother is concerned; I think that is obvious. You haven't remarked on the greatest wonder.'
'Maybe I missed it.'
'No, I think you were being polite. How an old whore happened to have opinions about cosmogony and teleology and eschatology and other long words of Greek derivation; that's the greatest wonder
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