I've always thought it was most unfair for Adam and Eve to be expelled from the Garden surely God set them up with the typical temptation of the serpent and the sweetness of apple flesh or pomegranate or whatever it was Eve shared with Adam if God were so perfect why couldn't he have passed that on to man and woman? but maybe that was the plan to give him choice and the power to do and get it right and make mistakes too to let him be proud and humble too to sin and to exceed common greed or lowly motives of fear and self-forgetfulness in feats of extraordinarly strength and speed grace enough for love and other circuses nevertheless we find ourselves flawed and fallen postlapsarian for crimes beyond the Flood and therefore having sinned before Noah we are ante antediluvian always making slips of the tongue lapsus and lapsuso backsliders every one

On the bus today I heard two suits getting into it on physics one guy was talking about string theory and how we and every part of us down to the atom and subatomic particle might as well be connected and pulled like wires by some master puppeteer only the guy didn't like the idea of a puppeteer sounded too much like natural theology he said the holy rollers liken God to a potter shaping woman out of Adam's rib and the moderates see the hand of a watchmaker in all of life either way what happens and how it all works is down to some higher power he liked random and was happy to be intrigued by how much like order it all looks when you are not looking through a microscope the other guy didn't seem to know much physics and his thinking was more Greek than Christian he said string theory sounded an awful lot like Zeus or Apollo having all of us and everything on a golden chain which he is free to let out fo...