Back to the paranoid being who was worried about man putting forth his hand and then to “take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever.”

Eat of the tree of life and live forever!?...Man?...This is in the cards?...There is the possibility that Man, or his ancestors, might come upon a Tree of Life, growing in the wild, eat of its fruit, and live forever?...Really!?...How very interesting!

But as John Paul Jones was reported to have said, “We have not yet begun to speculate!” [Okay, it's a different John Paul!]

Note, for example, the fact that the first mention of the Tree of Life is in Genesis 2: 9. Immediately following this is the announcement that “Thar’s gold in them thar hills”. Does this juxtaposition of the Tree of Life, gold, and the rivers in which to pan for gold have some esoteric meaning?...

Well, of course, it does!...Why else would I have mentioned it!?...The only problem is... I don’t think you’re quite ready for this one. Perhaps in a few hundred thousand years.

Meanwhile, back at the closing of the local homeless shelter...we find Adam and Eve being summarily thrown out of the only home they had ever known -- a tear jerker worthy of the Nightly News. Imagine it, if you will...

LOCAL COUPLE TOSSED OUT OF HOME BY ANGRY LANDLORD!