Why should we expect that this should have been an isotropic event?
If the event were "informed," isotropy would be the least expected outcome.
I'm both sad and glad that you have resigned from your long tenure as chairman of your county's Historical Commission. Sad, because you loved working in that post, and by all accounts were outstanding in your execution of same. Glad, because that suggests you have found some other new area of "mind and action" to which you will bring your wisdom and energy....
I hope and pray that the Holy Spirit will continue to be your guide in your new endeavors, dear brother in Christ! And I look forward to hearing about your progress WRT your new pursuits!
To me, you — among other things a highly accompished physical chemist — embody the very idea of fides quarens intellectum, of faith in search of its reason.
Some people out there in FReeperland and beyond may regard "faith" and "reason" as mutually exclusive terms. But I do not; and I daresay, neither do you. Rather, they are fundamentally complementary and finally exist together in synergistic, dynamic relation....
Just some thoughts, dear brother in Christ! Thank you ever so much for your splendid elucidation of events in the early Universe as they comport with God's Revelation to us of the ex nihilo Beginning from which His Creation was created.
Our friend albionin wants to chalk up the amazing accord between the text of Holy Scripture and the findings of contemporary science to "coincidence."
I strongly doubt that it is any such thing. Rather, I see Genesis 1 as the root idea that the mind of man has been exploring over the past ~2,500 years, all the while pointing science to its own business of "evolving" truthful knowledge about the world we actually live in.
JMHO FWIW
FReepMail (with graphic) for your review... ‘-)
Thank you, Dear Sister -- but there's no "sadness" re that decision here! For one thing, I'm remaining on the Commission and doing what I enjoy and do best: researching and creating historical markers. For another, "riding herd on a bunch of cats" is the least enjoyable thing for an "individual contributor" like me!
Also, remember that I'm still an Archaeological Steward with the Texas Historical Commission. that means I am responsible for archaeological and historic preservation projects in my county and all adjoining counties -- and "as far as I am willing to drive"... '-)
In addition to multiple active archeological projects in six counties, making (many) presentations, and doing cartographic / overhead imagery research on historic roads and trails over a WIDE area -- my latest challenge is trying to prevent an organization called "Historic Jeffrson Foundation" from allowing the (National Register listed) last surviving Confederate Ordnance magazine of its type to fall off into Big Cypress Bayou.
One of my (illustrated) articles on the "Powder Magazine's plight"...
Otherwise, I raise grandkids, manage 65 acres of piney woods -- and FReep -- which I better get back to doing... '-)