“In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.”
The essential premise of Douglas Adam’s universe was that bad things happen and so do good things, but not necessarily in that order or even to the same person twice. Even those who have digital watches are just as likely to have their house bulldozed to make way for a bypass; never mind those who remembered to bring their towel!
Adams never attempts to avoid the existence of God; he just depicts the deity of his universe as one of us, to whom bad things happen just like the rest of us. At one point in H2G2, he actually has God just walking off the scene because he someone disproved his own existence.
There is no doubt that Adams was frustrated by the bewildering randomness of the universe, at least as he saw it, and he took those frustrations out by making a mockery of the universe he knew he was a part of.
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I agree to a point. Douglas Adams was an atheist but that does not mean he had contempt for the very existence of the universe. I do believe he had a great respect for life.
To prove my point Douglas was an animal rights activist. He climbed mount Kilimanjaro in a rhino suit to save the rhinos. If he really did have a nasty case of apathy I doubt he would have climbed a hill to save his grandmother.
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