James K. Morrow Quotes 75 Sourced Quotes
The real reason Charles Darwin distresses people, I would argue, is not that he stumbled on an argument against theism. No, the problem was that he replaced theism—replaced it with a construct more beautiful and majestic than any account of the Supreme Being outside the Book of Job, a construct that invites us to see every variety of life, from aphids to archbishops, zygotes to zoologists, as vibrant threads in an epic tapestry, its warp and woof stretching across the eons and back to the Precambrian ooze, the seminal sea-vents, the primordial clay-pits, or wherever it all began. An astonishing construct, a mind-boggling construct, a construct of which Jehovah is understandably and insanely jealous. James K. Morrow
—Then there is the final possibility, my favorite. —Yes? —The final possibility is that I'm God. —You're God? —Just a theory, but the data are provocative. I mean, look at me. Faceless, shapeless, holey, undifferentiated, Jewish, inscrutable... and a hermaphrodite to boot. Years ago, I told you sponges cannot be fatally dismembered, for each part quickly becomes the whole. To wit, I am both immortal and infinite. —You're God? You're God herself? You? —The data are provocative. —God is a sponge? A sponge? There's not much comfort in that. —Agreed. —Sponges can't help us. —Neither can God, as far as I can tell. I'd be happy to see some contrary data. James K. Morrow