Touché

He looked lovingly at his creation. A pair of eyes and ears, nose, lips, mouth, cheeks, forehead and chin on the face, neck, torso, a pair of hands and legs, hair ... He had paid attention to every minute detail. Prior to this, all His creations were His experiments. And he had made many. Some lived on land, some in the oceans and a chosen few on both. He had made the finishing touches to his latest creation when He remembered His own rule – “Every species shall mate with its own and never with another species”. So He made another version of his creation and now He had both – a male and a female of His latest creation. The human species.

The archangels all looked at the creation in awe and chorused, “Awesome!”

One of them gleefully said, “Just imagine, once this species starts breeding there will be so many of these awesome creatures everywhere on earth!”

God sighed. He shook his head and said “Perfection is boring. And if the offspring bears resemblance to its parents there shall be much unwanted confusion and chaos. Why, the species might even lose interest in breeding if it sees the same of the opposite kind everywhere, eventually leading to its extinction.”

The archangels chorused “How true!”

God sighed. He then started tweaking the template and though the base format remained the same, He started making alterations as to the colour of the skin, hair and eyes, the height. It took Him quite a few days but He eventually came up with varied editions of His latest creation. He lined them up proudly for the archangels to marvel.

The archangels chorused “Marvellous!”

God sighed. The physical attributes were all multifarious but what of the behavioural attributes? With His divine powers He instilled varying degrees of the seven virtues and vices in the various editions of his creation. So now, not only did they differ according to colour, height and physicality but also in kindness, cruelty, brevity, cowardice, prudence, greed, intelligence, foolishness, magnanimity, miserliness, honesty, deceitfulness, etc. He lined them up proudly.

The archangels chorused, “Magnificent!”

God finally heaved a sigh of relief. He instructed his archangels to descend on earth and position the different editions of his creations in different parts of the world. He would then induce life in them and they will then sustain and reproduce their own kind. Soon the earth will have a variety of his most proud creation – the human.

Many centuries later the humans formed a variety of Gods. Touché!