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Smiled through the whole read.

Only thing that needs to be revised is 'genetic warfare'. That is definitely not a future problem. It's a very very old one.

Also, while I think "prescience" would most certainly be in god's vocabulary, I think he'd be 'ultra fashionable' and think of it's use in casual conversation as being passe.

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The end reminded me of "What does Marsellus Wallace look like?"



Arguably, all violence is a sort of genetic warfare. But we've yet to encounter the problem of engineered-from-scratch superviruses.


I was thinking more along the lines of 'eugenics'


This is all out of the recollection of the author in the story; if the author is the type of person to use "prescience", he could easily have injected the word in his narrative.

On the other hand, if this god is what he claims to be, I imagine he'd use whatever words best conveyed his point- if he was trying to make one- and who are we to say "prescience" was not the perfect word when speaking to our narrator?




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