Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bog-gglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'But,' says Man, The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'Oh dear,' says God, I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic. Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and getshimself killed on the next zebra crossing.
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