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“More appropriate, I should think, is the view that God created the universe out of an interest in spontaneous creativity… What would such a universe be like?  Well, it would for one thing be impossible to predict in detail.  And this seems to be the case with the universe we inhabit… Further, a creative universe should give rise to agencies that are themselves creative, which is to say unpredictable.  There is in our universe such an agency, spectacularly successful at reversing the dreary slide of entropy and making surprising things happen. 
We call it life.”
-Timothy Ferris, “The Whole Shebang”, from The Hand of God

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