AtD 16, cont. pp 449+

[Mark Kohut]

Merle stumbles upon a crowd wanting to see the next "perils of pauline' kind of adventure
  on their broken movie theater projector so he fixes it......
   
  watching linked to 'crowds at tent-meetings'.......movies like religious gatherings......'A storyteller's spell".......
   
  it is the watchmaker who usually fixes the broken reels......See God the Watchmaker in history....  The watchmaker analogy, or watchmaker argument, is a teleological argument for the existence of God. By way of an analogy the argument states that design implies a designer. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the analogy was used (by Descartes and Boyle, for instance) as a device for explaining the structure of the universe and God's relationship to it. Later, the analogy played a prominent role in natural theology and the "argument from design," where it was used to support arguments for the existence of God and for the intelligent design of the universe.
  The most famous statement of the teleological argument using the watchmaker analogy was given by William Paley in 1802.   wikipedia
   
  "So many stage magicians going into the business"..........JChrist himself was thought to be a 'magician' by some...............
   
  And, back to Light as a Determinant of Hisotry and Manahaeian light:   Merle thinks: "there had to be something more direct, something you could do with light itself.....
   
  Compare and contrast with your own obs.......


       
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