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“Playing God: A Scientific Fable” was written by historian of art and science David Topper. It was published in the Winnipeg Jewish Post & News in 2022. Topper wrote the story in an attempt to bring the story of creation – which in most Jewish liturgy is still grounded in the literal seven-day story in Genesis – into present-day cosmology.