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MSW is the regular journalist at NCR mostly frequently given a hard time by regular commentators here. So much so, I regularly feel sorry for him and inclined to defend.

Not this time. 

The Christ Event, and especially its two bookend moments, the incarnation and the resurrection, are not only unique in human experience, but also unique in the 3 billion year evolution of life, in the 4.5 billion year evolution of our planet and solar system, and in the 13.4 billion year evolution of the cosmos. Both events straddle the "created universe" delimited by matter-energy evolving within space-time, and the divine realm unbounded by these limits.

Perhaps in a former world, before modern science exposed as never before the nature of our "created universe" and before modern scriptural scholarship exposed as never before the complex nature of the gospels beyond literalism, the simplistic divide Michael assumes between the resurrection as either "real" or "metaphor" would have been enough.