Thad hadn’t ever really prayed. They’d never gone to church, and if someone had asked him about his beliefs in God he would have had a hard time articulating them. Thad had a general idea, and it came down to particles. No matter on earth could ever be truly destroyed or created, only changed. He remembered that from science class. Where consciousness came from he wasn’t sure except that in the end it was nothing more than a byproduct of the unique arrangement of molecules. And if this was the case, then other arrangements of molecules—trees, grass, rocks—had something like a consciousness
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