Nothing Can Make A Thing

 

 

 

Please give me another chance

Just to tease your mind,

I will make no promises, though,

Not to do it another time.

 

First, read the title of the poem

Then, please read it again,

Don’t be too quick to form an opinion

From such haste, please refrain.

 

Can a statement be both true and false

At one and the same time?

Study the following statement

And you will see what I opine.

 

“Nothing can make a thing.”

What do you understand that to say?

“Nothing can make a thing.”

Did you read it a different way?

 

 

By this time you might be wondering

What I am getting at,

If you haven’t picked it up yet

Please go all the way back.

 

“Nothing can make a thing.”

Let me repeat my self,

“Nothing can make a thing.”

There are two books on the shelf.

 

Both carry the same title

But they portray it differently,

“Nothing Can Make A Thing”

I trust you can now see.

 

But just in case you cannot

I will give you one more chance,

And maybe from this clue

Your thinking will be enhanced.

 

“Nothing can make a thing.”

What do you understand by that?

“Nothing can make a thing.”

One of them is a fact.

 

Nothing can make a thing

Some cause must bring it about,

The second law of thermodynamics

Should leave us in no doubt.

 

However, there is another position

Which is in stark contrast

And the number that hold to it

You will find, is quite vast.

 

 

Nothing can make a thing

But we must give it a few billion years

For with time under the right conditions

Everything appears.

 

“Nothing can make a thing.”

A claim held by two world views,

Creation story makes more sense

Evolutionists don’t have a clue.

 

Stewart Russell © November 2019