Quote Originally Posted by English assassin
Hmm. no one else in this thread subscribes to the "Lucas just makes it all up as he goes along" theory then?
Given that the other options would be:

"Gawd appeared before Lucas and said maketh this story..."

"I used a very powerful telescope and focused it on a galaxy far far away, due to the distance it was a long long time ago. I then transcribed the events that I saw..."

I think I will go with the one that he is just a mortal author who makes it up as he goes along...