*Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind bogglingly useful could evolve purely by chance that many thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of god.

The argument runs something like this. "I refuse to prove that I exist". Says god "For proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing". "But" says man, "The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It proves you exist and so therefore you don't. QED". "Oh dear", says god, "I hadn't thought of that", and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. "My, that was easy", says man, and goes on to prove that black is white, and gets killed on the next zebra crossing.

Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys. But this did not stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme for his best selling book, "Well that about wraps it up for god". Meanwhile the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different cultures and races, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.

The HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy, By Douglas Adams.

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