"let there be peas." and there were peas. and it was good.
I found this hilarious extract when studying KI today. Its about how Gregor Mendel's findings are uncannily accurate. A reflection about how, even in science, we tend to place more emphasis on findings that support our initial thoughts.
"In the beginning there was Mendel, thinking his lonely thoughts alone.
Mendel said "Let there be peas", and there were peas, and it was good.
He put the peas into the garden, saying unto them, "Increase and multiply,
segregate and assort yourselves independently", and they did and it was
good. Now it came to pass that when Mendel gathered up his peas, he
divided them into the round and the wrinkled, and he called the round,
dominant, and the wrinkled, recessive. And it was good.
But now Mendel saw that there were four hundred and fifty round peas and
one hundred and two wrinkled peas; this was not good for the law stateth
that there should be only three round peas for every wrinkled. And
Mendel said unto himself, "Gott in Himmel, an enemy hath done this,
he hath sown bad peas in my garden under the cover of night". Mendel
smote the table in righteous wrath, saying "depart from me, you cursed
peas, into the outer darkness where thou shall be devoured by the rats
and the mice". And lo it was done, and there remained three hundred
round peas and one hundred wrinkled. And it was good, it was very, very
good. And Mendel published."
"In the beginning there was Mendel, thinking his lonely thoughts alone.
Mendel said "Let there be peas", and there were peas, and it was good.
He put the peas into the garden, saying unto them, "Increase and multiply,
segregate and assort yourselves independently", and they did and it was
good. Now it came to pass that when Mendel gathered up his peas, he
divided them into the round and the wrinkled, and he called the round,
dominant, and the wrinkled, recessive. And it was good.
But now Mendel saw that there were four hundred and fifty round peas and
one hundred and two wrinkled peas; this was not good for the law stateth
that there should be only three round peas for every wrinkled. And
Mendel said unto himself, "Gott in Himmel, an enemy hath done this,
he hath sown bad peas in my garden under the cover of night". Mendel
smote the table in righteous wrath, saying "depart from me, you cursed
peas, into the outer darkness where thou shall be devoured by the rats
and the mice". And lo it was done, and there remained three hundred
round peas and one hundred wrinkled. And it was good, it was very, very
good. And Mendel published."