Projects have always enjoyed a symbolic, often even religious connotation. Some consider the Creation as the first great project - the timing was certainly impressive...Morris is right; the timing was impressive; but if the timing was not in fact impressive; as is held by many who bolt their belief in evolution to their reading of the Bible, then it is hard to see how the creation bears the mark of an author, and it merges with the product of non-authorship. Consistent, of course, with the denial inherent in evolutionary thinking that there was and is no author.
One of the marks of authorship: of the application of persons to effects, is efficiency of means: remove this, and you remove the signature. The author soon follows.
