Faith in Nothing

 

 

 

Faith in nothing

Rather than faith in God

Is a moronic belief acknowledgement

I can’t help but appal.

 

And to base such

On the scholarship of science

Is to climb to the dizzying heights

Of appalling nonsense.

 

When did nothing

Stop becoming something

And start reproducing itself

As simply nothing?

 

Faith in nothing

Rather than faith in God

Does not make any kind of sense

At all, at all, at all.

 

And more incredibly,

Scientists actually believe this

And often frown on theists

And God dismiss!  

 

The heavens declare

And scientists should see

That nothing could not be credited

For this reality.

 

Faith in something

However nonsensical it may be

Has considerably more going for it

Than a nothing reality.

 

 

When nothing is the matter

Then anything can be

And when everything is nothing

This is insanity.

 

Need I say more

Regarding faith in nothing?

No, not until such faith adherents show

Nothing producing something.

 

Faith in nothing?

Rather than faith in God

Is like a self-made computer

Built from nothing at all.

 

Stewart Russell © May 23, 2024

 

Much Ado About Nothing

 

 

I have written at length

On the reality of nothing

Only to realize when nothing is used

There is something.

 

Nothing is something

That is not clearly defined

And oft leaves a lasting impression

On everyone’s mind.

 

Nothing’s in the pantry,

Nothing’s in her purse,

What is it that you have done?

Nothing is rehearsed.

 

Even the little child

When asked what he’d done

Would adamantly reply nothing

And then he’d run.

 

Nothing is something

We are often told

And many scientists do believe

It’s billions of years old.

 

As a matter of fact

You might have heard

That nothing created the world,

Though absurd.

 

In the beginning

Was absolutely nothing

And through the power of nothing

We have everything.

 

So, if you have nothing

You really have everything,

So, relax and just take it all in stride;

And in the meantime, sing.

 

What caused Big Bang?

It was nothing, of course,

Nothing is like nothing, you see,

When nothing’s the force.

 

 

Nothing is the cause

That caused everything,

And without nothing, I dare say,

Would be not a thing.

 

A weird rendering

Of John chapter 1 verse 3

Replacing Jesus with nothing,

How can this be?

 

All things

Were made by nothing;

And without nothing was not anything made

 That was made.

 

Much ado about nothing

We have often stated

But never in reference at any time

To things created.

 

It blows my mind

And absolutely so

Regarding the absurd lengths

To which people go.

 

Failing to believe

In the omnipotent God,

They argue nothing is first cause;

Nothing created it all.

 

 

Genesis is a myth

And should not be believed

Whereas nothing is more credible

And should be received.

 

Why is there something

Rather than nothing?

Because of nothing, dear Watson,

Nothing’s everything.

 

Nothing, you see,

Is greater than God

So, who needs a fictional creator

When nothing is all? 

 

Nothing, you see,

Is greater than God:

This statement is true and false;

Please, no applause.

 

True for the creationist

And false for the atheist

Depending on where nothing comes

On either one’s list.

 

Nothing is greater

Than the Almighty God,

This most certainly must be true

Since God created all.

 

Nothing is greater

Than the Almighty God,

For the atheist this must be false

Since nothing is first cause.

 

Be content with nothing

For nothing is gain,

Power to all who have nothing

Has to be insane.

 

Be satisfied, I urge you,

With nothing from now

And you will be sure to get through,

I guarantee somehow.

 

 

Note my sarcasm

Regarding getting through,

Falling would be a better expression;

What think you?

 

Stewart Russell © July 28, 2025

 

Sir, You Have Nothing

 

 

First, see the contradiction

Expressed in the theme:

There is Sir follow by nothing

What could this mean?

 

To be addressed as Sir

And then said to have nothing

Must be a contradiction

And one quite puzzling.

 

Unless of course

There is much more to follow,

Something preceding the substance

More like the shadow.

 

 

A misunderstanding, perhaps,

On the part of the speaker

Of whom we eventually discover

Is really the seeker.

 

“Nothing to dip with, Sir,

And the well is deep.

From where did you get water?”

Now the Saviour speaks.

 

“The water I shall give you

Will within you spring up

And you will not never need to dip it

With a jar or bucket or cup.”

 

Whether she clearly understood

Up to now I cannot tell

But the fact she recognized Jesus

I believe she did very well.

 

Off to the village she went

To tell one and all

That she had met the Christ

And on her he had called.

 

 

Jesus gave her water

That was not from the well:

An eternal spring of living water

And she could not help but tell.

 

He who had nothing to dip with

Gave her everything she needed

And unlike our everyday leaders

At no time had she pleaded.

 

“Sir, you have nothing”

Must be seen in another way:

It’s the plight of every one

That does not have Jesus today.

 

The water he will give you

Will quench your every thirst,

That is the promise he gives

To all who put him first.

 

Like that woman at the well

If you would take him at his word,

Your cup would so continually overflow

You’d want to tell the world.

 

If you have found the Saviour

Don’t keep him to yourself,

Tell your friends and your neighbours

He offers spiritual health.

 

Stewart Russell © September 25, 2020

 

Strange Phenomena

 

 

In less than an hour

And fifteen minutes later

Can you tell me how long it took

To arrive at the baker?

 

Since yesterday

It has been three whole days

That he borrowed the money

And promised to pay.

 

Three years ago

She was forty-four,

Tell me how come three years later

She is no more?

 

Nothing is as long

And nothing is as short,

What in tarnation could this be

That nothing can distort?

 

 

If trump is short for trumpet

And trumpets make a blast,

What sound would President Trump make

Given such a difficult task?

 

Strange is the answer

That all of us should get

But stranger still, I do declare,

None has gotten it yet.

 

That’s a little riddle

That will remain unsolved

And even if you discover the answer,

I will not be involved.

 

I have not long awakened

But I am still asleep

And I consider this phenomenon

To be profoundly deep.

 

 

That is why at present

I am composing this poem,

I am awake in a very deep sleep;

I trust you see my problem.

 

It’s when I am at my best

That at such times I write,

Do not judge me, I most humbly ask,

For my phenomenal insight.

 

Now that this is out of the way

Please let me continue,

As strange as these little quips may seem,

Not one of them is my view.

 

 

A man was blocking the way

Whereupon another exclaimed,

“If you stay right there for ever

I’ll have to change my lane.”

 

I was wondering for a while,

If he actually waited that long

But after waiting for an indefinite time,

I decided to go around.

 

Whenever forever comes

He may still be there

But I will not know, I can I attest,

For I will not be here.

 

 

 

 

One more before I go,

So, let me give it some thought,

In the meantime, put the poem down

And take a little walk.

 

Please let me know

The moment that you get back,

I’ll have that thought waiting just for you

That even now is a fact.

 

I definitely thought

You would fall for this

And the mere fact you’ve read this far

Shows I did not miss.

 

So, have a good day

If it is the daytime

But if on the other hand it is night,

‘Tis better to decline. 

 

Strange phenomena indeed!

Did you see what I mean?

If you did you can drop me a line

Or send a silent scream.

 

Stewart Russell © March 27, 2025

 

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

 

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