muscles and show off to The Peepians like you
usually do.”
34 "They love it," North laughed, "every minute of it!"
35 After the younger children had left, North's oldest son came over.
"Father," he asked, "something that has always puzzled me. The Lord God
claimed to have made all things. How did he explain these evolutionary
records that clearly show that we were not made, but EVOLVED?"
36 "I think Morn can answer that better than I can," announced North.
37 "Well, first of all," Morn began, "The Lord God tried to hide such
knowledge, but as more and more wise-minded people began to discover it
over and over again, he changed his philosophy. He announced he had
made all things, but he did not make them instantly, as our forbearers
had first believed. He tried several different versions before he
selected the perfect ones, altering each a little bit at a time until
he created perfection.
38 This is also how he explained away The Dead Worlds, and, The
Hashons. He claimed these were experiments he had tried which had gone
awry, and that he had abandoned to destroy themselves. Most had, but in
The Hashons' case, they were taken over by evil Spirits that denied his
glory, and tried to make them into a force that would destroy The Great
harmony For The Universe, which his one great rule would make."
39 "I see," the young man said. "When faced with the truth, a greater
lie must be created than the one before. As The Hashons say, Truth
stands by itself, but every lie must have another lie to hold it up."
40 "You see very well, indeed," Morn acknowledged, with a smile.
41 "I hate to interrupt this interesting conversation,"