Some things do not make conceptual sense — such as a redneck who enjoys classical music or a geologist who recites the salvific fantasies of Christian theology, the latter conceptual incongruity being manifested in a letter in defense of an itinerant pulpiteer published April 13. How can one educated in geology cleave to antediluvian notions long ago supplanted by science?

Science is a rock that wishful thinking cannot cleave, whereas the rock that is Christ, as he so referred to himself, is a tor of delusive hope for a hereafter that weathering reason will eventually erode away.

The evidence for mountains having risen is plain. For Jesus having risen there is no evidence; and so it must be concluded that he did not rise from death as a mountain rises from earth, but lies beneath it on a Levantine plain. That makes conceptual sense.