Here's a clip from one of my more irreverent stories.

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And the Lord said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. He/she/it saw that it was, well-l-l...bent...and verily backed he/she/it away therefrom to ponder the problem. Upon surmising that this apparent anomaly would bring forth much confusion and concern among his/her/its creations, he/she/it summoned forth one of the angels who lurked thereabout and gave him/her/it divine instruction.

“Goeth ye down to the earth and the inhabitants thereof with this sacred law that I shall giveth thee and there thou shalt deliver it unto one who is named Willebord Snellius, and thou shalt instruct him to disseminate this law hither and yon throughout all the lands to all the lowly students of Physics 1A or 101 so they may go forth into the world and enlighten the inhabitants thereof regarding this seeming error in my divine creation.

Thou shalt admonish the one who shall one day be called Snell that he is to make it clear that the law worketh equally in both directions. Yea, when the light goeth in and when it cometh out, and that it is universal to all things that possesseth a property I shall call ‘optically clear,’ wherein I have limited the speed of light to less than that of the firmament.

He shall call the ratio between these two speeds the Holy Index of Refraction and he shall writeth it down as I have given it to thee. He shall use the humble small letter ‘n,’ and he shall separate the ‘n’ of the firmament from the ‘n’ of the materials that possesseth the properties I have defined herein. The respective speeds shall he denote as ‘v sub 1' and ‘v sub 2'. He shall call each of the Holy Indices in their turn ‘n sub 1' and ‘n sub 2.’ The Holy Convention shall dictate that ‘n sub1' is to the left and ‘n sub 2,' by Holy Default, lies to the right. Thou shalt teach unto him that this is so that all shall proceed with their calculations in like manner to avoid confusion among my people. Thus it shall be for all time, yea, even relativistic. The same shall hold true in those junctures between lamina for ‘optically clear’ materials wherein the speed of light varies one to the other, each in their turn through differentials of their Holy Indices of Refraction.”

Thus the angel ceased his/her/its lurking about and went down to the earth to do as he/she/it had been instructed by the Lord. And it came to pass that Snell, being a faithful and obedient servant of the Lord, did precisely as he had been instructed by the angel who, for a brief time, lurked not.

The Lord saw that this was good and called the results thus obtained the Holy Theory of Optics Involving Refraction of Unlike Materials, even though those materials were all called ‘optically clear’. And the people of the earth accepted his/her/its Holy Law of Refraction in all its various forms, yea, even the simpleminded concept of linear parallel rays and the simplified Holy Thin Lens formula.

The people of the earth danced and rejoiced in the name of the Lord and the word ‘refraction’ was on the lips of every student who had the great privilege of graduating from a high school and/or junior college basic physics class.

One of the missing parts of the GENESIS scrolls, according to J. Richard Jacobs.