Edited by author 03-15-2001 03:15 PM
Re Lewis #12> Neither am I of a particularly religious bent... and I've learned that discussing hypotheticals is not usually fruitful. I'm bound to say this, though, and given what I've written to the "TBTF Irregulars" list, I'm betting you won't be surprised and trusting you won't be offended. Your hypothesis -- about God's possible intentions vis-a-vis starting the earthquake after ensuring that the sand pendulum was working -- doesn't engender any resonances with me (and that pun was intended). For myself, I tend to think of the "earthquake rose" as a random, fortuitous byproduct of a random, otherwise potentially destructive cataclysm -- which fortunately cost no lives. This time.

That having been said, it is nevertheless wonderful to me that this beautiful tracing, whether a picture painted by design or created by coincidence, echoes a fundamental debate about creation and evolution -- and it is further wonderful to see the way the web has both promulgated this aesthetic aspect of a terrifying event and strongly accelerated its distribution and discussion.

So in my book, this note is apparent disagreement -- leavened by meta-agreement.

Now, my cousin in Seattle seems to think that I am a crypto-Bible-reteller and an Adam-and-Eve-sympathizer to boot; and if that's true, then hey, just disregard this whole damn posting :-)