title: God's Debris: A Thought Experiment
author:  Scott Adams 
description: Scott Adams, creator of the popular comic strip "Dilbert," has written a modern-day parable about a young man and an unlikely mentor. <i>God's Debris</i> starts with a young deliveryman trying to hand over a package to a man with a San Francisco address. But delivering the package to this old man proves to be as difficult as trying to understand the meaning of God.
zlib_text: **Clay's Pride**
  
   **Bud Sparhawk**
  
  _Contact can be a tantalizing glimpse, and even clear facts get filtered
  through layers of human_ _deviousness. . ._
  
  The scream of the proximity alarm awoke Wilburn from his dream of the cloud-
  tipped mountains of home. He slapped the panic switch to regain control from
  the automatics and tried to make sense of the display. Maybe it was another
  chunk of debris, he hoped.
  
  The jumbled returns from the long scan gave no indication of what was coming,
  only that there were more than one and they were distributed within a
  100,000-kilometer cube. Even when he boosted the gain he still couldn’t
  resolve the returns into anything that made sense.
  
  Well, that wouldn’t matter for long. At the rate the objects were closing
  they’d soon be in visual range.
  
  He unlimbered the scope and adjusted it for max range. There, that bright
  fuzzy spot must be the target cluster. He kept the scope fixed on the spot.
  
  “Holy mother of God.” He could hardly believe his eyes, a