Okay how about this then? When the ahem rapture happens and only the good people ascend to heaven, the rest of us will be here and be good for the planet and the aliens, howzzat? **BG**(No offense intended!)

To everyone: I know I've recommended them before, but once again, and totally appropriate for this thread, please get your hands on two books, Waiting for the Galatic Bus and its sequel The Snake Oil Wars by Parke Godwin and get ready for a hilarious look at this subject.

In the first book two brothers from a distant planet are cruising after graduation, running around from planet to planet with their friends, drinking and carousing. They land on primitive earth. The brothers pass out. Their friends think it would be funny to leave them for a while and come back, only problem is they can't remember where they left them because they were so drunk.

Brothers wake up. One challenges the other to mess with the planet, make something of the primitive life, while the challenger has a good time. They help evolution along and eventually become known as God and Satan. It is brilliantly funny and a quick read.

The second book finds them back at it, at a time not unlike our own. Quite a followup and every bit as entertaining as the first.

They are out of print, but I am sure you could find copies at www.bibliofind or www.bookfinder or in your local library.

kat