Galactic Publication: Well That About Wraps It Up For GodCopy Anchor Link

"Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys, but that didn't stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme of his best-selling book Well That About Wraps It Up For God."

— The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Chapter 6

Well That About Wraps It Up For God is a best-selling philosophical blockbuster written by Oolon Colluphid, author of the controversial theological trilogy Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest Mistakes, and Who is this God Person Anyway?.

The Central Theme: The Babel Fish ProofCopy Anchor Link

The book's central theme is the famous ontological counter-proof inspired by the Babel fish—a small, yellow, leech-like creature whose telepathic brainwave matrix decodes any spoken language in the Universe:

1. The Improbable Coincidence: Because it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful as the Babel fish could have evolved purely by chance, a school of thinkers chose to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
2. Faith vs. Proof:
   • "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
   • "But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED."
   • "Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
3. The Zebra Crossing Encore: Flushed with triumph, Man remarks, "Oh, that was easy," and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.

Critical & Commercial ReceptionCopy Anchor Link

• Theological Condemnation: Most leading theologians across the Galaxy claim that the Babel fish argument is "a load of dingo's kidneys."
• Commercial Triumph: Theological objections failed to deter the book-buying public: Colluphid made a small fortune when he used the argument as the central theme of Well That About Wraps It Up For God.