Believing in Nothing

 

 

You no doubt will agree

This title is baffling,

How can any sane human being

Put faith in nothing?

 

But thousands do!

And some consciously so,

For I regard these as conscious

Given what they know.

 

Celebrated philosophers

And renown scientists

Place their faith in nothing

At substantial risk.

 

At risk of their sanity

Which appears to have gone

Such that I am amazed at them:

Every single one.

 

Scientists?  Philosophers?

These are brilliant men!

To put their faith in nothing

Must be a problem.

 

 

But they do not see it

And this truly baffles me

For given the basic worldviews

Theirs is insanity.

 

More sense in Big Bang

For this would be something

But rather place faith in nothing

Is truly baffling.

 

Two basic worldviews:

Nothing and God!

And when nothing is announced

So many applaud.

 

In the beginning God…

Makes infinitely more sense

But to the atheistic scientists

This is dense.

 

Nothing does it better

Than God ever could

So, atheists believe in nothing

As they should.

 

What a win for nothing!

Nothing was the power

Responsible for all that we see

From the very first hour!

 

In the beginning

There was nothing at all!

And nothing created all we see

Thus, nothing is God.

 

 

Everybody believes

And to believe takes faith,

Even if one believes in nothing

There is still a trace.

 

Nothing versus God!

And nothing is the winner!

How silly the wisdom of the world!

Worse than a beginner!

 

Believing in nothing

Is an insane worldview

Held by many so-called academics;

I trust not you.

 

The emperor’s new clothes

All over again

And like the church at Laodicea:

Of nothing fame.

 

Stewart Russell © June 24, 2025