Good Eve, yet again, Rev Skipper (With Apologies to Calvin for takin' Liberties with His Thread..heh!)

Branson Update: I spent 10 days making sure a 76-yr-old Friend & Producer wouldn't lose his Land & end up Homeless. Also decided NOT to invest in His Project, so Do's about $250K Happier, while we continue to await our Mexican Homebuyers anticipated Contract Closing..tho not with Totally-Optimistic Anticipations. Met some Incredibly-Interesting (& Beautiful) People, both in Nashville and in Branson. Froze my Butt off on Several Occasions, but didn't get Deathly Sick, a Usual Occurrence every Other Branson Trek so far.

Did perk up my Acquaintence with Elvis' Granddaughter...she's now an accomplished Thumb-Wrestler, & a very intelligent A- French Student in Branson's HS. Saw the Farm in Bennington, Ark. that Elvis lived out his last days in AFTER his death was faked.

Met several times with Nashville Promoter "Ambassador" Charlie Ray..May have lots more to tell, BUT I'm takin' Time Off for a Vacation with La Femme BEFORE I get into anything Deeper in da Music Biz..

MEANWHILE...Maybe I'm naive, but I consider myself a Monotheist-Deist...admittedly More Along The Lines of the American Indian's "Great Spirit" than the Christians' 3-way-Split that never seems to get Quite Well-Explained, JMO.

I also think you kinda Conveniently Bunked a LOT of Deep Research into Geology and Palientology to shore up your kinda Fundamentalist Views of Planetary & Biological History. As for the Geological Record being "Muddied"...waal, Just last week there was a Headline "Dinosaurs related to CHICKENS" that I found rather fascinating. Turns out not ALL the Dino DNA HAD been destroyed in some bones, even after MILLIONS of Years..& this lab managed to Extract and Purify what they had of it. AND, Molecularly/Structurally/Chemically..it's VERY Close to the DNA of Modern-Day CHICKENS.

So..Score one for Darwin, eh, Amigo? ;->

I truly think in the next Half-Decade Extraterrestrial Life WILL be discovered, perhaps no further away than the Planet Mars. IF it's Somehow More-Intelligent than US, I'm sure Christianity's got a LOT of Explaining to do. Since Astronomers are finding 2-3
Solar Systems every WEEK that could support Life, nowadays, it's really a Matter of Time where the Popular Version of God's "Looking Like Us" takes a Major Hit in Believability.

Thank God!

Big Guy-Hug (& One for Judi Too!)
Stan