Hehehe

[avevale_intelligencer]

Reading Kim Newman's Secret Files of the Diogenes Club (with much enjoyment--he's good), I derive a brief flicker of amusement from the fact that he has two characters lecturing each other on how silly it is to think that God might have created the world complete with fossil history to seem older than it is...in a book whose cover is designed with the appearance of ripped cloth and worn corners to seem older than it is.

I hope it's a deliberate irony.

Comments

[bedlamhouse]

So basically it is possible that fossils and geological strata are merely the cover art for a vast multi-dimensional cosmological trashy novel?

Hmm. That would explain a lot.

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't it just?

Or not just the cover art. We could be one of those lovingly crafted facsimile editions of the kind of universe they used to make back in the old days.

[batyatoon]

... I'm almost sure there's a midrash about Genesis that states/suggests that this is not the first universe God made.

Hmmmm.

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

Perfectly possible. Also possible that ours is not the first God to make a universe. Certainly won't be the last.