"I watched Him do it. Put all those giant bonesss in the ground. He was laughing about it. Great big practical joke."
He was beyond tipsy now and his drunken hissing was getting significantly more pronounced.
"Any ssscientist, any one, will tell you that thisss planet is four and a half billion years old. Basssed on calculationsss and whatnot. But I know, I know, that it's just over sssix thousand. I know 'cause I've lived every blesssed one of them. Why does He want them to think it's older than it really is? Who the fuck knowsss? That's what I say about sssquid boy, too. It just doesssn't matter when you get right down to it."
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Date: 2006-01-26 08:24 pm (UTC)"I watched Him do it. Put all those giant bonesss in the ground. He was laughing about it. Great big practical joke."
He was beyond tipsy now and his drunken hissing was getting significantly more pronounced.
"Any ssscientist, any one, will tell you that thisss planet is four and a half billion years old. Basssed on calculationsss and whatnot. But I know, I know, that it's just over sssix thousand. I know 'cause I've lived every blesssed one of them. Why does He want them to think it's older than it really is? Who the fuck knowsss? That's what I say about sssquid boy, too. It just doesssn't matter when you get right down to it."