I've decided to reject the HTML-sapience as my Lord and Saviour, preferring instead to remain faithful to Christ Jesus as evidenced and experienced through the Sacraments of the Catholic Church, the first and foremost of which is the Eucharist. The HTML-sapience, in a fit of misguided evangelism, seems to be under the impression that I need some help interpreting the first few chapters of the Book of Genesis.

Well, I'll worry about that in a bit. First, though, I want my Readers to join me in a thought experiment. If you've done this one before, don't spoil it for those who haven't. If you haven't done this, give it a try. It's pretty cool.

First, open a text editor window (Notepad on Windows, Text Edit on Mac OS X, whatever...). Now, find your preferred online version of Genesis, and copy the following verses into the text editor window:

Genesis 6:5-8, 7:1-5, 7:7-8, 7:10, 7:12,7:16b-17, 7:22-23, 8:2b-3a, 8:6, 8:8-12, 8:13b, and 8:20-22

Now, open a new text editor window (keep the first one open too), and copy the following verses into the second window:

Genesis 6:9-22, 7:6, 7:9, 7:11, 7:13-16a, 7:18-21, 7:24-8:2a, 8:3b-5, 8:7, 8:13a, 8:14-19, 9:1-19

Once that's done, read the contents of the first text editor window through in their entirety. Then read the contents of the second window through, also from start to finish.

Now...what do you see?