1) Boss, there is a wee problem with one of those hobby experiments of yours inside the main Creation project.
2) It is those clowns over in the Critical History Intelligence Management Program Section, again.
3) (Sigh) I needed to do something with the junior staff, particularly the ‘imaginative’ ones, what is it this time….
4) Well, you know the time differential between here at Control and those ’Intelligent Beings’ side experiments, especially for Sol 3 - Homo Sapiens?
5) They have been inserting wildly conflicting story to ‘evidence’ elements, mainly to see what kind of effect those will have on the intellectual development of the new primary species.
6) Ah, as I recall that was the one where the growth medium got too rich, resulting in the exponential development of the original Sauropod type for size rather than intelligence, which we had to wipe clean and restart along Mammalian lines?
7) Well everything was going fine with the evolving Hominids, into the start of them developing various regional deities, agriculture and their first writing methods.
8) Then the CHIMPS picked one obscure tribal group, gave them a series of often conflicting text instructions for moral conduct, presented and re-enforced as being of ‘divine’ origin.
9) Which of course have been badly copied, heavy edited, and deliberately miss interpreted over time, each version held up as the ’True Word of God’.
10) Those Bozos, why do they think I had implemented the Critical Thought side routine for anyway?
With (very minor) apologies to ‘Becka’, where I stole the image used - noting that she did not credit the original artist either.
This started with a slightly larger and different mechanism inside the same concept. Humans as a petri dish side experiment inside the main construction (the universe) being undertaken by some Power. And a group of younger trouble makers inside the project inserting some kind of 'lets see what this does' random elements. Originally I was thinking of some standard biblical stories (the Flood = where did the water come from / Joshaua and Earth stopping rotation = no inertia effects) plus some 'joker' effects like dinosaur bones, sedimentary rock layers, all being fakes.
But - 10 Lines
Remember the Golden Era of Clarke and Asimov, masters at the short story. Before the excesses of word processors, and when Editors actually *edited* material? When it was about the underlying concept, often a punch line?
Fredric Brown's "Knock"
' The last man on earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door... '
Note - published in 1948. Modern people, substitute 'human' for 'man' please.
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