Personally, I seriously doubt that the writers even know the answers yet.
Whispers? Giant birds that speak? Giant 4 toed statue foot? Black smoke? Hut that appears here or there, only some see it, Jacob hates technology?
Remember Hurley painting a picture of what looked like an igloo and an eskimo? Remember Penny's guys somewhere in the arctic snowcovered waste? Walt's weird ability to see a picture of a bird in a book, then one of those birds brains itself to death on the window where Walk was? His comic book? Remember the soccer team at the airport and the camera flashed past them, and if you go slow the numbers on their jerseys were the same as Hurley's winning lottery ticket etc?
Good writing, making it up as they go I really think so. Tossing fun things in there just for fun and piqued interest. Yep yep, fun fun. If God "loved" Jacob, does he not anymore? God even loves Satan as one of his arch angels.. the most powerful and willful one at that. 4 toed magnetic alien's dude. I'm tellin ya it's plausible.
Wow, valentine chocolate makes me hyper
