Высший замысел

This is one possible model, which is favored by those who maintain that the account given in Genesis is literally true even though the world contains fossil and other evidence that makes it look much older. (Were they put there to fool us?) One can also have a different model, in which time continues back 13.7 billion years to the big bang. The model that explains the most about our present observations, including the historical and geological evidence, is the best representation we have of the past. The second model can explain the fossil and radioactive records and the fact that we receive light from galaxies millions of light-years from us, and so this model - the big bang theory - is more useful than the first. Still, neither model can be said to be more real than the other.

CCORDING TO THE BOSHONGO PEOPLE of central Africa, in the beginning there was only darkness, water, and the great god Bumba. One day Bumba, in pain from a stomachache, vomited up the sun. In time the sun dried up some of the water, leaving land. But Bumba was still in pain, and vomited some more. Up came the moon, the stars, and then some animals: the leopard, the crocodile, the turtle, and finally man. The Mayans of Mexico and Central America tell of a similar time before creation when all that existed were the sea, the sky, and the Maker. In the Mayan legend the Maker, unhappy because there was no one to praise him, created the earth, mountains, trees, and most animals. But the animals could not speak, and so he decided to create humans. First he made them of mud and earth, but they only spoke nonsense. He let them dissolve away and tried again, this time fashioning people from wood. Those people were dull. He decided to destroy them, but they escaped into the forest, sustaining damage along the way that altered them slightly, creating what we today know as monkeys. After that fiasco, the Maker finally came upon a formula that worked, and constructed the first humans from white and yellow corn. Today we make ethanol from corn, but so far haven’t matched the Maker’s feat of constructing the people who drink it.

А как мы можем узнать, не являемся ли мы сами всего лишь персонажами в сериале, сочиненном компьютером, подобно герою Джима Кэрри в фильме «Шоу Трумана»?

У вас много общего. Доктор Дэвис открыл частицу, которую никто никогда не видел, а профессор Хигби открыл галактику, которую тоже никто никогда не видел

Действительно, Фейнман однажды написал: «Думаю, я могу с уверенностью сказать, что квантовую механику не понимает никто». Но квантовая физика согласуется с наблюдениями. Она всегда выдерживала проверки, а проверяли ее больше, чем любую другую научную теорию.

После этого фиаско Творец нашел, наконец, подходящий состав и создал первых людей из белых и желтых зерен кукурузы. Сегодня из кукурузы мы делаем этиловый спирт, но так и не можем потягаться с достижением Творца, создавшего людей, которые этот спирт пьют.