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has warned you of an invasion of the Earth by them. We will give you the necessary proofs of our existence, and no one will doubt your words anymore. In this way, Humanity will increase its armaments to prepare itself against possible attack from the sky. This will prevent Yahweh from another approach attempting to stop men from killing each other, from building up an even greater stock of nuclear weapons and aggression on Earth. Consider on the one hand, some people are asking you to work for an already lost cause, since sooner or later, men will blow themselves off the face of the Earth. These same people will not even give you proofs of their existence to help you to convince your brothers, nor any financial aid. They will leave you to face the sarcasm, the police and judicial pressures that might lead you to prison, without counting the possibility that some fanatic might kill you because you claim that there is no “God”. On the other hand, my proposition makes you a rich and very powerful man immediately, a man who will only have accelerated a course in which humans are already destined. So, what is your decision? Do you want to think about it for a few days before giving me your answer?’ And I answered: ‘I am not at all convinced that Humanity will self- destroy, even though there is a nine out of ten chance that it will. Even if there was only one chance in a thousand that Humanity suppressed its aggression and escaped destruction, I think that it would be worthwhile taking this one chance. I would like to think that men will understand before it is too late. And even if the final cataclysm occurred, Yahweh told me that all the people who will have fought for peace and non-violence will be saved, in order to re- populate the Earth and try to build a loving world. Your proposition does not offer anything more, except perhaps that in your plan, only those people who will have contributed to the explosion of violence will be saved. The new civilization which they would then structure 4 ‘roe soa co. 1 could not avoid being violent, because of the domir characteristics of its founders, directly, socially and hereditarily. 286 INTELLIGENT DESIGN: MESSAGE FROM THE DESIGNERS because of the dominant