Hot Soup Eventually Cools, Death Lives Forever! (Theory-Heavy; Skip If You Don't Like It)

What was the universe? Or rather, what was the world we lived in? The way a world was born, to some extent, had already determined the way it would end.

If a world had truly been created by an omnipotent, omniscient god in seven days, just as the legends said, then it would ultimately be destroyed in a god's wrathful cataclysm, also just as the legends said.

In other words, for a world to truly be understood, it had to have been rational from the moment of its birth. Everything had to have arisen according to certain rules, rather than from some unknown being's sudden whim.

For example, to understand the principles of the human body, one first had to ensure that humans had truly evolved step by step from ancient apes, rather than having been created by some god.

Otherwise, the final authority of explanation would forever rest with the gods, and humanity would never be able to understand its own mysteries.

The inverted retina, the recurrent laryngeal nerve that took a detour, the trachea and esophagus sharing one opening, the unprotected and fatal weak point at the temples, nipples utterly superfluous to men, and the penile bone men lacked for better reproduction—all of these would be little flaws left behind because a god had been careless while creating humanity.

Rather than choices humanity had actively and passively made during evolution in order to survive better and adapt to the environment.

For Richard, what he pursued was an understanding of the current world, making it, like Earth, a universe governed by reason, rules, and logic.

Then what kind of universe was Earth's universe? Everything had already been determined at the moment of its birth.

According to the most widely accepted research findings on Earth, the universe Earth inhabited had