Stanislaw LEM. The Voice Of The Lord (№ 303002)

The thought of the Creator, who is simply amused, very attractive, but then we get into a vicious circle: we are ready to consider the Creator's malicious, not because he created us that way, because we ourselves are malicious. But if man is so insignificant, so unremarkable in the face of the Universe, as science tells us, that the Manichaean myth - an obvious absurdity. Tell otherwise: if the world is created (which I do not admit), the required level of knowledge is incompatible with blunt jokes. For - this, indeed, is my motto - there can be perfectly wise of evil. The mind tells me that the Creator cannot be a small dirty dog, illusionist, which mocks the fact that he was doing. What we take for malice - perhaps a common miscalculation, a mistake; but then we come to the not yet existent theology flawed deities. And the scope of their creative activity - the same in which I do myself, that is, probabilistic statistics.