The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

“The Babel fish,” said the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy quietly, “is small, yellow and leechlike, and probably the oddest think in the universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the conscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centers of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of all this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish.”
“Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the nonexistence of god.”
“The argument goes 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 could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don’t. QED.’ “
“ ‘ Oh, dear,’ says God, ‘I hadn’t thought of that,’ and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.”

This is a fun topic to talk about, what defines god? I come from a long line of ministers and think of myself as a religious man, but that doesn’t mean I don’t question or believe everything the bible says. Evolution, for one, is something I believe in. If I were in a world where something like the Babel fish existed, I would believe that the fish evolved. That is to say if there was significant evidence to prove it. Even if it was placed there by a higher power, I don’t think that that’s how faith works. Faith, for me, is something I use to give me hope that there is something more to woke for. If explanations turn up, I don’t see them as disproving, but rather reinforcement for my beliefs.
Douglas Adams has a way of righting and incorporating common themes into his books that make them very interesting to read. Evolution is very controversial and makes for an interesting story, especially the way he dose it. If he were still alive today I would love to meat and congratulate him for creating a work of literature that can the attention, especially that of the nerds.