Ned, a lesser celestial, is seated at a laptop at center stage. Enter the Achangel Gabriel, the Voice of God, stage left.

Gabriel: Hi, Ned.

Ned: Hey Gabe!

Gabriel: How’s that human reproduction project going?

Ned: Fantastic! I’m just putting the finishing touches on it now!

Gabriel: This isn’t going to turn out like the last project you ran, is it?

Ned: Hey, look, I know it didn’t go over so well, but you watch. I think the Australian mammals will fit in to the larger scheme of things better than you think.

Gabriel: (deadpan) Uh-huh.

Ned: I’m particularly proud of the duck billed platypus.

Gabriel: (deadpan) Of course you are.

Ned: It’s a beaver and a duck!

Gabriel: If we could get back to the humans…

Ned: What? Oh, right. Well, it starts out with sex…

Gabriel: That thing we had the presentation on last week?

Ned: Right.

Gabriel: Nice.

Ned: Yeah, I thought you’d like that. Then the sperm finds the egg in the ampulla of the fallopian tube, and then you’ve got a zygote.

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