More Danger of Presentism

 Quote from Washington Irving

There is a certain meddlesome spirit, which, in the garb of learned research, goes prying about the traces of history, casting down its monuments, and marring and mutilating its fairest trophies. Care should be taken to vindicate great names from such pernicious erudition. It defeats one of the most salutary purposes of history, that of furnishing examples of what human genius and laudable enterprise may accomplish.

Our Universe as an Improbability

 Thomas Dubay.

"This means that all the fundamental particles and their constraints had to be present, namely, “the velocity of light, the mass of the proton, Planck’s constant, the charge of the electron, universal gravity, etc. . . .  It is not a question of saying: if the charge on the electron had been 10% different, life would have taken on somewhat different forms, etc.  All life, as we know it, would have been impossible.”