San Francisco conceptual artist Jonathon Keats, most famous for trying unsuccessfully to convince the Berkeley City Council to pass an unbreakable law (Aristotle's A=A, or "Every Entity Is Equal to Itself"), is working on a new project.
He's trying to genetically engineer God in a laboratory, using a technique called continuous in vitro evolution, a process used to accelerate useful mutations in bacteria by exposing them to favorable conditions. Since "favorable conditions" to God would mean the presence of continual worship and praise, he's playing tapes of various world religions' prayers to petri dishes filled with bacteria. Eventually, he reasons, the bacteria will evolve to those most capable of taking advantage of the favorable environment. Bingo, divinity.
This is not the interesting part. The interesting part is that
Christianity is winning. (As a typical San Francisco moral relativist, Keats notes that his methodology may be flawed.)
Deus ex machina.
ETA: I just broke out the ol' Enigma disc to see if these bacteria really know whut's whut, ya feel? Lemme tell you, this prayer shit is
hot. The Cowboy Junkies disc is going off the bedroom rotation. Ya gots to get monky if you wants to get fonky. Also, these bacteria are on to something, lifestyle-wise. I wonder if Whole Foods is open at this hour --- I'm getting me a jar of that agar.
