The providential foundation of this blog

In an oversight the blame for which surely falls at the feet of Iosephus, who is the Cornell Society for a Good Time's resident specialist on all matters relating to metaphysical questions about time and eternity, this blog neglected to celebrate the anniversary of the birthday of the world on October 23rd.

Today, while reading in an issue of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science from 1954, I found these words in G. J. Whitrow's article, "The Age of the Universe":

"According to Archbishop Ussher, God created the world on Sunday, 23rd October, 4004 B.C. Recent scientific attempts to date the remote past are much less precise."

But behold! by a beautiful proclamation of Providence, this past October 23rd was also a Sunday! Accordingly, spurred by this manifest miracle, Iosephus, the treasurer of this society, proposes to the president's approval, begging the leave of the vice president besides, to ratify a decree recognizing the inauguration of this blog and the temporal incipience of the cosmos to be a great mark of God's favor and nigh unto a divine endorsement of our enterprise, seeing that we began the blog on a day, unbeknownst to us, such that it would share a birthday, usque ad temporis finem, with the whole of the universe.

It is not the intention of this author to endorse in anyway notorious heretics such as this Anglican primate of Ireland. Still, even the Angelic Doctor made use of the writings of such infidels as Maimonides and Averroes. So Catholics will always reap the fruits of the truth wherever it may be found.

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