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In the beginning there was a playing field, with lights, and it was called earth, and the lights were called sun and moon, and it was good.

All creatures frolicked and played and died and were killed and were born and born again, and it was good.

And different creatures developed new equipment, so that the variety and complexity of the games was increased. Some developed fast legs, others hard shells, some wings to fly, others noses to burrow, others aqualungs to swim under water. No matter what new equipment they developed, the games went on and all creatures continued to play and it was good.

And one creature developed a brain which permitted him to outsmart some of the other creatures and to win many of the games and to invent newer and more complex games, and it was still good.

But then, one by one, in isolated, divergent places, some of these brain-filled creatures began to invent the game that there were no games, that the rules of various games were Divine Law and that the referee was God, or that the rules were scientific law and the referee was the scientist.

And the light went out and the playing field became for ever dark.