"Surname 1Student’s NameProfessor’s NameCourseDateOryx and CrakeMargaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake depicts Snowman making up myths to provide anexplanation for the history of Crakers. The Crakers do not understand most of the words andlike to make the rather complicated culture simpler, Snowman uses concepts the Crakersunderstand. The stories are far-fetched and completely distinct from the truth, Snowmancomes up with a myth when the Crackers inquire about their creation. “Crake made the bonesof the Children of Crake out of the coral on the beach, and then he made their flesh out of amango” (Atwood 96).There is similarity between the myth Snowman makes up and thebiblical story of origin that makes Crake and Oryx godlike.Crake also created a new human- like species and attempts to design them devoid of the natural tendency to believe in a higherpower; which proved impossible(Labudova 140). Is the belief in a higher power paramountfor existence?The efforts Crake makes to eliminate God fails; “Crake thought he’d done away withall that, eliminated what he called the G-spot in the brain. God is a cluster of neurons he’dmaintained. […]. They’re up to something though, something Crake didn’t anticipate; they’reconversing with invisible, they’ve developed reverence” (157). Are creatures predisposed tobelieve in a higher power? Where does the G-spot come from? Removing the belief in ahigher power was impossible; the Crakers may not be truly categorized as human, but theyare an altered form of the same. Crake could not alter the most fundamental component of Surname 2existence otherwise he would make “zombie of a psychopath” (157). Atwood indicates thatthe belief in God is a fundamental part of existence. Although there are diverse religions andopinions on what God is; some aspect of God and a relationship is necessary for a meaningfuland fulfilling existence.Crake’s contempt for God is reflected in the G-spot term; a sexual references thatreveals Crake’s attitude. It also shows that Crake is driven by desire considering hisconnection with Oryx. Crake hates the hormonal sexual desires exhibited by Jimmy andothers, “ a bad plan for him to show too much interest in any woman in the presence ofCrake: oblique mockery would follow” (309). Through equating the need for sex to God,Crake scorns these human instincts. He, however, inevitably exhibit the same sexual feelingsand experiences love for Oryx, rather deeply. Crake’s love for Oryx is what drives him andcan be taken as a god to him(Glover 50). Additionally, the G-spot metaphor can be understood to mean that Crake yearns forGod as he does for sex, in a hidden manner. Crake’s attempt and fail to remove these instinctsgives insight into his feelings and thoughts. He holds the belief that they are harmfulcomplications. May be because he lacked either of these instincts in his life he deemed themso insignificant. When the Crakers ask about their origin, a notion that Crake assumed heeliminated, Oryx says “I told them the truth. I said it was Crake. I told them he was veryclever and good,” (311). Maybe Crake held the need to be god to the new species.Though hescoffed at the idea, he seems interested when the Crakers see him as representing the godlyfigure.A glimpse of Crake’s innermost feelings is evident through his scientific creation.Maybe in the most fundamental section of his mind he really did need God, just as he didlove; he might have attempted to hide these feelings but they inadvertently came out when "