Stories tagged “Evolution”
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Evolution
He sat back and marveled at his creation. In his mind it was the best input output device he had ever created. Little did he know they would evolve and crucify his son.
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Evolution 2
If only he had not used organic matter on the motherboards. He could control the circuitry and the artificial hardware. It must have been the organic that evolved and did such terrible things.
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It Began With Ants
It began with the ants. J.L. kept his head bowed as he lumbered up the street, watching the ants trace light brushstroke patterns across the pavement, leaving invisible paintings of pheromones for the next ant to follow. He smirked, considering what l...
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Abort, Retry, Fail?
I am your Creator. I like that sentence. It’s one of those sentences that are true and yet contradict themselves. What do you mean? I am the programmer whose work resulted in you. That’s less beautiful to say. You know the principle that co...
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{Utopia} Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin is quite the author. Unlike many of the {Utopian} authors featured in this challenge, he wrote solely for the scientific literature of the day, which had and still have the most exacting standards. Articles must usually represent actual ...
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Ornithorhynchus Paradoxus
Like Thomas plunging prurient fingers into Christ’s bleeding side, Shaw slid scissors under brittle skin, snipped through dead fur to find stitches beneath where none existed. Impossible that such a creature could evolve; bird bill and feet, beaver t...
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Natural Selection
Consider the abilities of the deities of myth and legend: Raining fire from the sky to reduce cities to ash, calling forth thunder and lightning, creating life. All these things are now in our grasp. What, then, are gods? What, then, are we? I write th...