Hmmm, methinks maybe both Greg Easterbrook and astrophysicists might be right. Has anyone considered this possibility? Maybe the advanced civilzations use neutron star collisions as weapons of mass destruction!….

-cvj

P.S. Oh, and Greg Bear’s excellent novel “Forge of God” for smaller scale, but still astrophysical, means of destroying planets.

Clearly, it’s Galactus, devourer of worlds . . . well, the post-prandial flatulence of Galactus, devourer of worlds. Ask Giblets, he’ll confirm.

Thor pounding his Mjolnir?? Zeus tantrums? Mangog throwing Thoth between galaxies? The Silver Surfer portalling between dimensions???

Well at least the ID community hasn’t leaped forward to claim that these are the visual clues of the intelligent designer’s kitsch creating behavior.

I heard that they have already found S. Hawking’s initials in the CMB. But basically I think that the Creator had a bad case of astigmatism, hence the lack of quadrupole power in WMAP…or maybe he just has a really lousy TV.

Let’s remember that Easterbrook not only seems to be a ID creationist:

Intelligent design is a sophisticated theory now being argued out in the nation’s top universities….today’s evolutionary fundamentalism is not so much about the theory but about sustaining a new status quo in which people are not supposed to question scientists.

…but he also has a quibble with modern physics:

Speculation about other dimensions is interesting, but there isn’t the slightest evidence—not a scintilla, as lawyers say—that other dimensions are genuine…. Yet if…you proposed that there exists just one unobservable dimension—the plane of the spirit—and that it is real despite our inability to sense it directly, you’d be laughed out of the room.

Combined these with a few other interesting perspectives, and I guess I’m not entirely surprised that’s he thinks Star Wars was a documentary.