![]() ![]() ![]() To make a thing as simple as an apple pie, you have to create the whole wide world. For an apple pie that can last for generations, you need the printing press and the Industrial Revolution and maybe even a poem. For a really good apple pie, you need the arts. You need wheat and sugar cane and apple trees. You need cows and people to milk them and more people to churn that milk into butter. ![]() You need water and fertile soil and seeds. If you want to make an apple pie from nothing at all, you have to start with the Big Bang and expanding universes, neutrons, ions, atoms, black holes, suns, moons, ocean tides, the Milky Way, Earth, evolution, dinosaurs, extinction level events, platypuses, He means from a time before the world even existed. When he says "from scratch," he means from nothing. That if you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you mustįirst invent the universe. For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. ![]()
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