If it wasn’t god.. then who?

“If god didn’t create you, then who did?”, asked the wise man to guffaws of laughter from the faithful. The atheist buried her forehead between her index finger and thumb, wondering how to change their concept of “who” to “what”, without it sounding like she was avoiding the question.

“It may have been Ethidium’s cousin” she finally replied.

“Who!?” they asked.

Ethidium’s cousin may have created all life, playing the role of a midwife to a few nucleotides, so that they could form long strands of RNA molecules… see here.

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