(urth) Standard Wolfean Riddle

[António Pedro Marques]

Gerry Quinn wrote (16-08-2010 15:48):
> From: "António Pedro Marques" <entonio at gmail.com>
>
>> I can't see why God would send a 'better' Jesus to a given universe.
>> Also, I think Severian comes too late in History to be the local Jesus.
>
> It may not be truly late in the history of Urth. Although there is some
> contradictory evidence with regard to geological processes, my personal
> view is that Severian's time is perhaps fifty to a hundred thousand
> years from now. If so, there are still hundreds of millions of years to
> go (and if the Sun gets too hot, as astrophysicists say it eventually
> will, perhaps we can then ask for the black hole to be put back!).

Yeah, not terribly late in geological terms, and the drowning of Urth and 
the new beginning makes it perhaps not too late in cultural terms.

But it's late in that it let so much of history go by without it. In our 
universe, Christ came just at the earliest time possible. A little earlier 
and his followers would not have had such a good opportunity to spread 
across the earth.

So why tens of thousands of years with the possibility of a Jesus and no Jesus?