The Earth Terrarium

God saw it and said, it is good and I wonder what he was judging it against? Are we the first, or second, or millionth?

Anything less than an actual experience with a new creation is only speculation. Until you see it up close and personally, who knows what is needed? Being god I imagine that time is irrelevant. If you are thinking like a monotheistic god, you don’t count on things like your creations recreating themselves and overflowing their little habitats. Although at the time it first happened, it must have been very awe inspiring.

Imagine how excited god must have been when he went from cutting amoebas in half, to regenerating lizard legs and finally onto getting whole trees to appear out of seeds and little surprise bundles of humanity resembling their parents. Not quite like gods, because it takes two humans to make a whole other one, but close enough to be pretty impressive. If there had been other gods, I am sure he would have been pretty proud of these accomplishments and quickly claimed the bragging rights.

Our ability to have children must have sparked the idea that we were his children. He just seems to have forgotten that there were still a lot of loose ends down here. He gave us all sorts of plants to eat, but an awful lot of them will kill us, which is probably another thing that didn’t come up until it happened since gods most likely to not have to eat, and it is very unlikely that they can be poisoned.

Then there is this idea of Father Time. Eternity doesn’t have a lot of use for minutes, or hours, or even years. However, once you throw time into the mix, all these things are pretty important to the little creations down in the earth terrarium.

So here we are, we live, we eat, we make little people and we die. How did a god who probably doesn’t do three out of four of these things even think all this up? Imagine his horror when we found ways to destroy it? He cleaned out the whole thing a couple of times, keeping the most promising ones, but here we are again.

Sometimes I wonder if he has just decided to quit enabling us and see what happens. Let us learn the hard way that there are some things you just shouldn’t do.