By Ryan Somma

Ryan Somma writes unpublishable Science Fiction and maintains a blog at ideonexus.com, where he regularly misinforms the public about science news, politics, and anything else he blogs about.

WHAT KIND OF ENGINEER IS GOD? (A NEW SPIN OF AN OLD JOKE)

One very fine day, a group of professorial-types of differing backgrounds happened at random to collude at the same table in the University cafeteria. Their conversation evolved from small talk into more substantive topics, and eventually the Professor of Civil Engineering, with a mischievous grin, posed the question, “What kind of a Scientist is god?” “God,” in this case, being a reference to the natural world, similar to Einstein’s use of the word, synonymous with nature and cosmos, and although such a conversation might seem highly unlikely for a bunch of secularists, the law of really big numbers dictates that…