Nice Try

"Nice Try" Ted likes to quip when asked about the World Wide Web.

Now, just imagine there really was a creator God...and that He had a professional peer group and one particular maverick malcontented antecessor looking reprovingly over His shoulder.

"Nice try mate...but there's too much redundancy...too many sub-optimal life forms...not exactly what I had in mind when I came up with the idea of self-organising biochemical systems."

Under the influence of Gnosticism (a faith made famous in Western Europe by the Cathars which posits that the material world could only be the handiwork of the dark side of the Divine), Hakim the veiled prophet preached to 8th century Persians that planet Earth was the work of the least competent and vertically nethermost of the 999 deities. Unlike the Albigensians, Hakim held out for the belief that licentiousness was as valid a response to the carnal as abstinence.