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Thanks for your kind reply.

It’s very gratifying when more kosher, hard science based facts support my out-on-a-limb convictions &/or impressions.

People have a valid point—to a point—that I tend to go with—at least tentatively—some very tenuous to far out stuff.

However, they are wrong to assume that I believe any fool thing that comes along.

The vast majority of things I hold very loosely—even on a high shelf—waiting for God to confirm one way or another whether something is mostly true, totally true, mostly or totally false. Even stuff I’m pretty sure is likely to be mostly true—I still hold somewhat loosely waiting for more solid confirmation.

I may write with conviction and emotion about some things I BELIEVE WILL LIKELY prove out. But those convictions are born of tons of puzzle sifting and pondering and I know that’s at best a pile of inferences.

Nevertheless, I’m not a lobotomized slug sifting and pondering all those puzzle pieces. I’ve been at it a long time.

And, the march of Biblical prophecy ever more fulfilled in greater and greater detail; more and more completely is a great basic structure to hang such inferences on.

MOST—THE VAST MAJORITY of inferences are merely logical given the end points the Bible gives and ‘guessing, inferring backwards.’

Throw in on top of that ‘guessing backwards,’ some even quite tenuous but MULTI-SOURCED puzzle pieces . . . and the odds go up at least somewhat.

Of course one will make errors. Of course bias and assumptions play a hazardous part.

I think THOSE FACTORS ARE MORE IN PLAY AND MORE HAZARDOUS on the other side of such conjectures. At least I have the very solid Biblical prophecies as a substrate.

All this, to me, is very elementary, simple, basic. It mystifies me how much angst, hostility and intense belief can reside on the illogical other side! LOL.

In this case, I know relatively little about geology. I’ve read a fair amount and my step-dad is somewhat of a self-taught geologist from the drilling mud industry. And, certainly the SouthWest is a great place to observe the results of dramatic geological forces.

And, I’d assumed that the middle of the USA was relatively solid. The whole New Madrid quake thing was news to me. I wasn’t originally aware of the history. I’d assumed the middle of the USA was boringly solid for eons, except for the erosion of the Mississippi.

However, I KNEW that the many DIVERSE authentic Christian sources of dreams about dramatic NEW MADRID results and a splitting of the USA down the middle were NOT very explainable as a result of too many spicey tacos the night before.

Throw in some other diverse sources saying essentially the same thing for the last 50 years or more . . . and the plot thickened.

I realize geologist Jack M Reed is NOT exactly saying the same things but he seems to be coming quite close to providing a scholarly explanation for why such things COULD well occur.

And that’s far more than some of the arrogant pontificators hereon could tolerate as being remotely possible in a million years a few short months ago.

imho, most humans are quite . . . proud . . . of their convictions and constructions on reality. Otherwise, they’d have different convictions and constructions on reality.

But when we allow such convictions to be rigidly affirmed mostly by smug personal arrogance . . . that’s a problem.

And if there’s NO significant capacity to think outside the box—that’s asking to be blind-sided by very brutal reality far more often than folks want to admit.

Solid research has demonstrated (George Kelly—Role Construct Theory) that those who’s construct systems are best at predicting events tend to be most successful in their work, their relationships, their lives.

And, further, that those who’s construct systems are most narrow and rigid are NOT very good at predicting events, consequences.

We all see through a glass darkly. Some of us realize it and make allowances accordingly.

Some don’t.