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