[dayglored]

> Only a supremely arrogant man, or a fool, would look into a region that can have only a faith-based reading (that which preceeded the advent of our spacetime universe) and conclude an explanation other than a statement of faith. Stephen shows his brilliance in choosing a faith-based assertion.

Thank you, you have not only "gotten" it, but you stated my own reaction precisely, and more eloquently than I did.

[MHGinTN]

Well thank you, but I happen to have also had limited correspondence with Stephen (through the library staff), mundane as it is in total. His mind follows the complexities of the universe, but he is a man of limited common sense, liberal in the main ... perhaps I should say an idealist in the main, though not too hopeful of the human species.