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

 

Music Speaks

 

 

Do the animals make music

Other than by instinct?

Do they create musical instruments

And think like humans think?

 

Do they play those instruments

To entertain you or me?

Or do they simply make sounds

Like it always used to be?

 

 

Do they write musical scores

Using staffs and notes

And add key and time signatures

To determine how that music floats?

 

Do they assemble orchestras

And pull together bands

And make sweet melodies

That are heard throughout the land?

 

Do they sing four-part melodies

Both high and low

So that when they are finished

People still want more?

 

Do they choreograph that music

In ways you can’t imagine?

Tell me my evolutionistic friends,

Does any nightingale or pigeon?

 

 

Do animals conduct orchestras

Or direct a band?

Do they sing in choirs and chorales

And stick to the plan?

 

Do they sing soprano and alto

Or tenor and bass?

If you could train them forever

Would there be a hint or a trace?  

 

Do animals do any of these?

Enlighten me please,

Speak up my evolutionistic friends

Now’s not the time to freeze.

Tell me the origin of music

Did it start with that big bang,

Where out of nowhere with nothing

There was a horrendous clang?

 

Music before its Creator

O what a laugh!

That’s like math without numbers

That would be quite daft.

 

Would it not be prudent

Given the order there is in music

To come down on the side

That someone at least originated it?

 

And who would be that someone

If he were not supreme

And around forever

Always “Has Been”?

 

Music points to a creator

Just like everything that is

And that Creator knows the answers

To every conceivable quiz.

 

 

Music points its finger

Back to its creator,

Before Chopin and Beethoven

God is its originator.

 

If music could speak like you or me

It would tell you this is a fact,

Only that you would be so taken in

You wouldn’t be able to answer back.

 

But music does speak

In both bold and plaintive tones,

It speaks to them that rejoice

And to them that mourn.

 

Its genres are varied

With its rhythms and beats

And when you come to appreciate it

It’s of the Creator it speaks.

 

It makes a profound statement

That Yahweh exists,

That He is the supreme intelligence;

It’s another on the list.

 

A list that extends

To the very beginning

When the Supreme Intelligence

Created everything.

 

Stewart Russell © May 2020

 

 

Mind and Matter

 

Which came first

Mind or matter

And what are your reasons

For the former or latter?

 

Mind is immaterial

This you would expect

However, matter is material,

This you won’t reject.

 

In agreement up to now

Both you and me,

Let’s dig in a little deeper

And see what we can see.

 

Matter has no mind

This is a known fact,

The mind can ponder a matter

But matter is just that.

 

Matter has an origin

But not so the mind,

Mind transcends matter

And even time.

 

It would have to be

If you see what I mean

And this is why I set store

By the Genesis theme.

 

 

In the beginning God,

The eternal mind,

First cause of everything

Even time.

 

The power of mind

That is the mind of God

Is the origin of all matter

And I mean all.

 

There’s nothing new

Under the sun,

A sentiment of the wisest man,

Namely Solomon.

 

“Let us make man”

A concept of a mind,

Not of matter, my friend

And not of time.

 

 

Time is a major factor

In the theory of evolution,

After billions of years

Matter came to fruition.

 

A misguided concept

That pertains to nothing

And that tells you and me

Nothing is something.

 

Nothing is something

And something is matter

And this is probably why

Some chose the latter.

 

Mind or matter?

Matter edges in front,

Surely this is the conceptualizing

Of the mind of a dunce.

 

 

 

Without mind

Matter won’t matter

For how else could we tell

That matter is matter?

 

Mind came first

And mind always had to be,

God is the explanation!

The only one I see.

 

The intelligent mind,

God the Supreme

That always will be

And always has been.

 

The I AM THAT I AM

Is His name,

Yesterday, today and forever

He is the same.

 

If matter created mind

Rather than the other way

Then day is night

And night is day.

 

Down is up

And up is down

Heaven is hell

And a smile is a frown.

 

Alas, this is not so

For we all have a mind,

It’s not just a matter of matter

But it’s God’s design.

 

 

The mind matters 

But matter doesn't mind

And matter never has

At any given time.

 

Stewart Russell © April 21, 2024