[...] If God existed (concerning wich Jubal maintained neutrality) and if He wanted to be worshiped (a proposition wich Jubal found improbable but nevertheless possible in the light of is own ignorance), then it seemed wildly umlikely that God potent to shape galaxies would be swayed by the whoop-te-do nonsense the fosterites offered as "worship".[...]
[...] The universe was a silly place at best... but the least likely explanation of random chance, the conceit that abstract somethings "just happened" to be atoms that "just happened" to get together in ways wich "hust happened" to look like consistent laws and some configurations "just happened" to possess self-awareness and two "just happened"[...]
No, he could not swallow the "just happened" theory, popular as it was with men who called themselves scientist. Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe - random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.[...]
[...] The universe was a silly place at best... but the least likely explanation of random chance, the conceit that abstract somethings "just happened" to be atoms that "just happened" to get together in ways wich "hust happened" to look like consistent laws and some configurations "just happened" to possess self-awareness and two "just happened"[...]
No, he could not swallow the "just happened" theory, popular as it was with men who called themselves scientist. Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe - random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.[...]
"A strange in a stranger land" Heinlein
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