Today I read How it Happened, a very short and humorous story by Isaac Asimov. The story explains why, in the Bible, the creation of the universe happened in six days. Although Moses first began to explain how it happened in fifteen billion years, his brother, Aaron, realized that they would run out of papyrus, Moses would start stammering, Aaron’s fingers would fall off as he wrote, and no one would be willing to make ninety-nine copies of it (which was necessary for publication). Instead, Aaron insisted, Creation had to be fit into six days. It was an amusing explanation of how scientists’ version of the universe could be right (any version of how Earth was created could easily be substituted), portraying the two men, revered in the Bible, as brothers who had simply wanted to be able to publish their story. I enjoyed reading it immensely and recommend it to anyone who wouldn’t be offended by this parody of Biblical belief and wants to read a funny short story. I would rate it 9.6/10.
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