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To: Servant of the Nine
Let's say God is not as simple minded as the Creationists think he is.

Indeed. Nor as unsubtle.

673 posted on 01/20/2003 7:26:43 AM PST by general_re (The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.)
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To: general_re
Let's say God is not as simple minded as the Creationists think he is.

Indeed. Nor as unsubtle.

"I once knew an Episcopalian lady in Newport, Rhode Island, who asked me to design and build a doghouse for her Great Dane. The lady claimed to understand God and His Ways of Working perfectly. She could not understand why anyone should be puzzled about what had been or about what was going to be.

And yet, when I showed her a blueprint of the doghouse I proposed to build, she said to me, "I'm sorry, but I never could read one of those things."

"Give it to your husband or your minister to pass on to God," I said, "and, when God finds a minute, I'm sure he'll explain this doghouse of mine in a way that even you can understand."

She fired me. I shall never forget her. She believed that God liked people in sailboats much better than He liked people in motorboats. She could not bear to look at a worm. When she saw a worm, she screamed.

She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing."
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. in "Cat's Cradle".


756 posted on 01/20/2003 10:03:46 PM PST by Dan Day
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