Thanks to Gerelyn for directing our attention to Paul Simms's "Shouts & Murmurs" piece in the August 8 New Yorker. Titled "God's Blog," it starts with a quick post from the Creator himself, which is followed by a series of reader comments:

UPDATE: Pretty pleased with what Ive come up with in just six days. Going to take tomorrow off. Feel free to check out what Ive done so far. Suggestions and criticism (constructive, please!) more than welcome. God out. COMMENTS (24)Not sure who this is for. Seems like a fix for a problem that didnt exist. Liked it better when the earth was without form, and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep.[...]Not enough action. Needs more conflict. Maybe put in a whole bunch more people, limit the resources, and see if we can get some fights going. Give them different skin colors so they can tell each other apart.Disagree with the haters out there who have a problem with man having dominion over the fish of the sea, the fowl of the air, the cattle of the earth, and so on. However, I do think its worth considering giving the fowl of the air dominion over the cattle of the earth, because it would be really funny to see, like, a wildebeest or whatever getting bossed around by a baby duck.[...]Why are the creatures more or less symmetrical on a vertical axis but completely asymmetrical on a horizontal axis? Its almost like You had a great idea but You didnt have the balls to go all the way with it.[...]Wow. Just wow. I dont even know where to start. So the man and his buddy the rib-thing have dominion over everything. Theyre going to get pretty unbearable really fast. What You need to do is make them think that there were other, bigger, scarier creatures around a long time before them. I suggest dinosaurs. No need to actually create dinosaursjust create some weird-ass dinosaur bones and skeletons and bury them in random locations. Man will dig them up eventually and think, What the f?[...]Meh.

Read the other eighteen comments here.