In one of the more spiritual episodes of the seminal television program, THE SIMPSONS, a convivial conversation between HOMER SIMPSON and GOD ends, when GOD must rush off and appear on a tortilla in Mexico. Remarkably, that made perfect spiritual sense to this Blogger; for what is the point of being GOD, if one cannot appear on a tortilla  in Mexico, or destroy Sodom? One of the leitmotifs of this Blog is that the biggest joke in the universe is the joke that one should trust the science of astrophysics over the myth of religion. One of the few joys of living in 2024 is relishing the decline of astrophysics, cosmology, and physics to the level of religion for Yahoos. Every day, new discoveries in astrophysics prove that what scientists thought they knew, have as much credibility as the beliefs of shamans, dwelling on some mountaintop.  In 2024, one does not need to seek GOD on Mexican tortillas. Or in Burning Bushes, or in Pillars of Fire or in Miracles; He is being rev...

It can be truly said that this Blogger became a Believer in a Divine Creator while reading Stephen Hawking’s tome, A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME. This Blogger was a paragon of scientific secularism until he got to the final chapters; in those chapters, Hawking asked his reader to believe that the whole universe was created in a Big Bang, from material no bigger than a pin head, in a nanosecond. Hawking also asked his Reader to imagine a time before the Big Bang in which there was no Time. When this Blogger read Hawking, he remembered a line from that wondrous German film, WINGS OF DESIRE, in which the fallen angel says :” Time cures all, but perhaps time itself is the disease.” It is all about Time, and Time is not a natural phenomena. If it were, the laws of physics would apply; which means Mankind would be able to go back in Time, or forward in Time, fairly easily. But we can’t; even if we built a Time machine, we could only go forward, because Time is an arrow, going only one way...