Origins

 

 

Back to the very beginning

No better place to start,

A leap of faith is still required

To start a believing heart.

 

In the beginning was nothing

Nothing and no one besides,

Absolutely nothing there was-

On this fact we can rely.

 

But out of the clear blue

At a particular time and place

Time’s clock started to tick away

And with this created space.

 

Now, we must understand

That this was billions of years ago

And the growth from then till now

Was very painstakingly slow.

 

As a matter of fact,

It would be absolutely right to say

It was quite a long while

Before there was night or day.

 

 

The first sound ever heard

Was a colossal Big Bang,

I tell you, to get things going,

This must have been quite a clang.

 

Heard by whom, I would ask

Since no one was around,

But I dare not ask this question

Since I am not a clown.

 

It was the first light too,

Before this, it had to be all dark

Thus, it was this phenomenon

That gave the universe its start.

 

Out of this came life:

A primordial soup you may say

So, you now see why billions of years

Could take us up to today.

 

Time was the creator

Of everything that came to be

And without such time it is certain,

Nothing would be here to see.

 

All this is substantiated

By atheistic scientists there are,

Evolution is the best explanation

For this world by far.

 

In the beginning was no one

Or even anything to start with

Thus, any cause outside of evolution

Must be a created myth.

 

 

For nothing created time

And nothing fashioned space,

Before nothing was not anything

Before anything took place.

 

If the Universe had a beginning

As all have come to believe,

It undoubtedly happened this way

Or we have been deceived.

 

Of course, there is the other side

Which is not a side at all,

A mythical God is their first cause

Which is a non-sensical call.

 

A no-caused Creator-God,

A God who has always been here,

A God, who unlike the Big Bang

Did not suddenly appear.

 

A God with supreme intelligence

Displaying intelligent design

Spoke and it came to pass-

They must be out of their mind.

 

Can he be more powerful, I ask,

Than absolutely nothing

That created all that came to be-

The reason there is everything?

 

 

 

Who would dare to believe, I posit,

In an eternal first cause

Unless proven scientifically

Like the evolutionary clause?

 

Science has proven evolution

Like the computer proves its originator,

The first computer was created

By an intelligent innovator.

 

Isn’t that something, my friend,

Yet nothing created man?

Note the switch in the verse before

As my intentional plan.

 

See the myriad innovations

Fashioned by an intelligent man

And then attribute all of creation

To an evolutionary scam.

 

Then, tell me if you can,

The names of all the mad scientists

For, indeed they must comprise

A rather lengthy list.

 

Stewart Russell © April 27, 2023