Design

Can’t you see God?

Are you blind?

Can’t you see His signature?

Are you out of your mind?

Are you for real?

You can’t really be serious,

To say there’s no proof

Is more than contemptuous.

Let’s take a look at design

It is all around,

Throughout the universe

Design just abounds.

There’s design in the plants

Design in the animals

Design in the skies

And design in people

Design in appearances

Design in behaviour

Design in diversities

Design is God’s favour

There are no two alike

Yet there are common threads,

All point to the Creator

Much more can be said.

Something stops the sea

As it charges to the shore,

Design brings it in

And sends it out once more.

It’s designed for that action

Like the customs of man,

To get the best of life

We design specific plans.

We copied this from God

Though we don’t admit it,

Having been made in His image

Design is our habit.

With the animals it’s consistent

With humans it varies,

The sparrow’s nest is fixed

But in humans there’s variety.

It all points to a designer

It is God who first designed

And anyone who can’t see it

Must be out of his mind.

Any explosion will disrupt

That’s Big Bang simply put

But a designer will construct

So open your eyes and look.

Yes look all around you

There is design everywhere,

Check out the next sunset

Go ahead and stare!

Look down at the mountains

And view the valleys below,

An elevated position

Will put design on show.

The plant kingdom in its diversity

The animal kingdom too

The ethnic groups of human kind

God’s design comes into view.

Unless of course you cannot see

That which is in plain sight,

If this is your case my friend

Then that is an awful plight.

It takes more to see

Things that are not really there,

Faith is one of the words we use

But the other word is what I fear.

Insanity is the word I mean

I use it for the spiritually insane,

It speaks of one who is super bright

But folly is his name.

All that man has innovated

Man has also designed

Yet all that he came and found

Came out of an exploding mine.

Even for starters

That does not make sense

And besides that we know

For insanity there is no defense.

Help is required for such a one

There is a need to fix the mind,

That’s where the fault has begun

There’s nothing wrong with the design.

God is responsible for the design

The fault is how we think,

There’s still a chance if we turn to him

We won’t go over the brink.

Stewart Russell © July 2018

Brain on Pause

The greatest computer ever made

Must be the human brain,

Created to exercise intensely

It undergoes excessive strain.

It is fully functional

And can last for a hundred years,

Tucked away in a hard case

It responds to all our cares.

It is composed of hardware

And runs plenty software too,

There are limitless applications

That will change with one’s view.

Try comparing its size

With the tremendous work it does

And straightaway

One’s mind will begin to buzz.

Here is some interesting information

I actually think it is fun:

The first fully functional computer

Weighed almost fifty tons.

The only feet it had

Was its humongous size

Which amounted to 1800 square feet

Yes, I note your surprise.

A whopping 18 000 vacuum tubes

Yet it could not self-programme,

Yes and you guessed correctly

It had no operating RAM.

There are differences in opinion

Concerning the very first

But in such an argument

We need not become immersed.

Just to make the point though

And to make it very plain

No manmade computer

Even comes close to the brain.

  

This is another reason

For my personal conviction,

There must be a supreme designer

Behind its creation.

If you are not a supporter

Of the first Genesis clause

I dare say my friend

Your brain must be on pause.

It is amazing how we think

Or put another way don’t think at all

And attribute all of this to evolution

My friend I am appalled.

I agree there’s been evolution

But not at the genesis,

Someone set it in train

Or I have missed my guess.

We can go back to the first computer

And agree that it evolved

But regarding its origin

This has been clearly resolved.

A human brain was responsible

Everyone would agree,

Thank God for the human brain

Since at least that we can see.

Yet the same brain that we use

To come to such a conclusion

We put it on pause

As we reject its creation.

“It’s not scientific,” we say

“For it falls short of the mark.

The only possible way it could happen

Is through an evolutionary  start.”

Brain on pause I suggest my friend

Brain on pause indeed,

Just like when we’re thrown off line

Having lost out Internet feed.

Hastily shut off your computer

And then reboot again,

No not your laptop my friend

I mean your forgotten brain.

To believe what you can’t believe

However hard you try

Is to believe that you are a bird

And that you can fly.

To believe that you are a bird

Does not make you one

So time to take the brain off pause

And switch its computer back on.

In the beginning God!

That is the first Genesis clause,

If you haven’t accepted this my friend

Then your brain is still on pause.

Stewart Russell © June 2018