[ WP ] A creationist and an evolutionary scientist have an opportunity to travel back in time thousands of years to settle their argument . Neither expected to find dragons , wizards , elves and orks .


 Dr. Kyle Stamford looked down at his computer and sighed. They had been crunching the numbers for some time now, and each time the calculations had come up clean. He rubbed his eyes. Everything still looked fuzzy. He had n't seen sleep in the last two days. 
 
 This was a supposed to be the pinnacle of scientific exploration and it had become a nightmare. It had been the seventh mission of The SKIP program. The first six had gone off without a hitch. No gruesome deaths or disappearances seemed unusual given that it is time travel after all, but with SKIP being a subdivision of NASA that was to be expected. For the record Kyle hated that name. It stood for Scientific Kilobyte-mediated Inter-time Passage but Kyle knew that was just a PR name given to the program. Everyone else called it Jumping. The original name coined by Dr. Kalso when he first invented the damn thing. 
 
 It had started out with small Jumps, five minutes, ten minutes, with flies and mice. Something to do with quantum entanglement of the photons. God knows who really understood it besides Dr. Kalso. The first human to be sent back was a redheaded renowned stunt driver by the name of Jamie Rodden. When she emerged, her original self from five minutes before “ poofed ” out of existence as they always did. 
 
 Despite the doctors questions tests and probing Jamie appeared perfectly normal. When asked about her mental condition and if she could respond to another Jump she responded as she had since her daredevil days in South Carolina. 
 
 “ Hell Yeah! Let ’ s do it again! ” 
 
 The program had been a resounding success until this point. With the arrival of SKIP, the scientific community wanted to once and for all quash the ridiculous notion that was gaining traction in some schools, specifically along the bible belt, that creationism was to be taught alongside evolution. This Jump was to be the Ali-Frazier of the scientific world. Finally once and for all creationism could be proved definitively wrong and the bible thumpers would be forced to move past this whole damn thing. 
 
 The science corner selected the icon himself, Dr. Brian Kalso as their representative while the bible beaters chose renowned preacher Rev. Robert Armstrong. 
 
 The media was in good spirits at the pre-jump debate. Asking questions to both the reverend and the Doctor. 
 
 One particular witty reporter asked: 
 
 “ Dr. Kalso, What will you do if the Reverend is right and you end up on a half formed earth, or worse, the Garden of Eden? ” 
 
 Everyone laughed, even The Reverend managed a chuckle. After the din had died down Dr. Kalso responded. 
 
 I will re-evaluate the theory of evolution and perhaps come to a different conclusion. That ’ s the beauty of science. Dr. Kalso said, shooting a withering glance at Rev. Armstrong. “ We make hypothesis based off of facts, not guesswork. 
 
 There was only one problem. The time capsule hadn ’ t showed up in the year three thousand BC where it was set to arrive. In fact, it hadn ’ t shown up at all. It appeared to have winked out of history. 
 
 Hence, why Kyle hadn ’ t gotten any sleep. Despite the best engineers, computer scientists and quantum physicists in the world, the question remained. Where the hell were Dr. Kalso and Rev. Armstrong? 
 
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 “ Where the hell are we? ” Rev. Armstrong was asking Dr. Kalso. 
 
 “ Be quiet Robert, I ’ m sure there ’ s a scientific explanation for all of this ” Dr. Kalso cleared his mind and tried to think. 
 
 They appeared to be standing in front of an ornate castle¬¬¬¬ with turrets spiraling up towards the heavens. This castle did not look like any material Dr. Kalso had ever seen before. It appeared to be made out of some type of pink glass. 
 
 There was only one logical conclusion Dr. Kalso could come up with. 
 
 Wherever they were, they certainly weren ’ t in 3000 BC. 
 
 AT WORK RIGHT NOW… I KNOW IT ’ S SLOPPY BUT I LIKE THE PROMPT! WILL FIX UP/ WRITE PART 2 LATER!! 

