[RightWingAtheist]

Clarke has made it very clear that he does not believe in this "imperialist-colonialist" message some have read into the book.

[js1138]

Clarke has made it very clear that he does not believe in this "imperialist-colonialist" message some have read into the book.

I didn't imply anything about imperialism. Clarke's aliens just step in with their butterfly effect, doing the tinest tweaks to insure that intellignce has a chance. In the book 2001, they save a dying race by giving them the idea of weapons. In 2010, they give Europa a sun. (which come to think of it, isn't a tiny tweak.)

I just resent the implication that evolution doesn't work.