LIKE A TREE PLANTED
[ a poem ]
"It must be true there is no God", truly fools have said in their heart
The evidence is far beyond question, mirrored in the magnificence of
creation art
Held up to the same scrutiny, all current theory that modern science believes
Would become lost in the cosmic sands of heaven's great star-filled galaxies
No matter how far we look out beyond or peer into the infinitely small
Of a certainty we must conclude that some great Someone designed it all
Our eyes, brain, limbs and fingers can work in conjunction quite disarmingly
To accurately shoot a bird out of the sky in split-second synchronized harmony
If there is no evil permeating the imperfection of earth's savage space
Would we just for insane sport, shoot the bird down in the first place?
And if a baboon threw a large pile of bricks a trillion times up in the air
Would they somehow once come down as a Taj Mahal or Times Square?
As invisible light and the rest of true science is but intuition of common sense
So is mirrored a Grand Designer of "grand design" infinitely small and
immense
We must go by the logical evidence, of physical witness all true faith and
science must be
To flee blind prejudice and embrace the evidence is the foundation for
our humanity
As certain as there is a bottomless black hole of fiery star-remnant brimstone
burning hell
So to deny the evidence of our Creator is to deny all history and science
as well
Somehow an unschooled man barely thirty taught us all moral concepts
deemed righteous and true
To say he was a great teacher but wrong about God and evil, leaves a whole
lot of explaining to do
A same species that results in Jacques Cousteau still produces mass pollution
and space-ray guns
And Mother Teresa and Adolf Hitler can be difficult explaining to a baboon's
grandsons
There is no logical explanation of human activity if our base motivation be only
survival of good
For why then would we destroy our finest teacher by driving five-inch nails in
Roman wood?
Wherever we look there is evidence of three; on the land, in the air and the sea
We must consider all of the evidence if the truth is to have any hope of making
us free
Shakespeare informs us mercy's quality is not strained, it seems to drop on our
science and smile
DaVinci, Newton and Einstein agree it is only God's mind in the end that is
worthwhile
To question fundamental science theory is not to say that it is not in part true
But an accepted theory of true science must withstand history's test of why we
do what we do
For if reproduction of our unique species is our only true motivating desire
Why do we consistently throughout history's record, forgo sex at a hint of
gold's treasure?
And why does such a highly evolved species seek to maim, to kill and destroy
Without rational design or purpose save for an evil game of lunacy to enjoy?
Why are so many people reaching out for something that will fill us
from beyond?
If there is a space in our souls that is empty, why isn't it filled by Natural
Selection's magic wand?
Not to question what tradition holds most sacred is to divulge we do not care
what is true
To not ask and to look and to knock is to deny what our conscience says we
must do
And to arrive at any logical conclusion if there remain among us a dishonest
doubter
How can our science ever hope to be true if it fails to ask whether there be
a Creator?
And how are we to educate our children and who in the end should be
held liable?
Can human literature and history be comprehended if we allow no access to
a Bible?
Will we still pretend there is no God when our planet’s Armageddon prophecy
comes true
When our moon turns to blood and we drown in the flood of modern
technology’s residue?
Can we depend on our science to save us when a third of our oceans become
dry land
As we call for the rocks to fall on us and the trumpet announces our doom is
at hand?
Then will our masters of science crawl out from their bio-terror corporation
alliance hole
And somehow say they are sorry for teaching our children there is no God
in control?
Now there are three who sit in the heavens: Our Father, the Spirit and Logos
called word
God damn our unfathomable ignorance! May their song of good news forever
and ever be heard. * ** ***
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association
The Albert Einstein College of Medicine
DEDICATED TO: Albert Einstein, who did his best to convince us that science is for the betterment of humanity and not for the creation of weapons of mass destruction and to Stephen J. Hawking, one of human history's greatest scientists and a truly most remarkable human being. "I want to know how God created the world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details." --Albert Einstein, who some modern intellectuals like to pretend, did not believe in a Creator.
*FootNote: Inspired by Psalm 1, author unknown; Letter To The Romans, by Paul of Tarsus; Asimov On The Bible, by Isaac Asimov; Cosmos, by Carl Sagan; Letter To The Hebrews, author unknown and If Dogs Run Free, from New Morning by Bob Dylan.
**FootNote II: For those who have not read the Bible very carefully, it may be of interest to note that the Bible agrees with modern verifiable scientific evidence, including that reproduction is a fundamental drive of our species. The Biblical authors claim however, that irrational lust for wealth is also a fundamental drive of our species. These two fundamental drives, clearly exposed in the historical record of our civilization, are entwined and overlaid in layers of complex human motivation and activity and cannot be easily separated as individual entities. This view of motivational duality adequately explains both the historical record and the current reality of our species---Selective-mutational self-organizing processes of Natural Selection devoid of a Creator fall very far short of any rational and satisfying explanation of the observable evidence. (See also The Myth of Modern Science, Random Chance A-Z Primer of Science and the Bible and Of God and Monkey Business for more information.)
***FootNote III: At Skeptic.com, the Skeptics Society manifesto makes an unsupported juvenile attempt to dismiss the idea of the universe being created by equating such a logical conclusion with obvious illegitimate superstitions as follows: "Some claims, such as water dowsing, ESP, and creationism, have been tested (and failed the tests) often enough that we can provisionally conclude that they are false." Upon sending an email to Michael Shermer, the author of this skeptics manifesto, it was discovered that when asked, apparently he has no evidence to back up the claim that it has been "provisionally" proven "false" that the universe was created. Ignoring an email of simple request for evidence to support such an illogical conclusion is provisionally proof enough that the Skeptics Society is itself, indulging in the inane monkey business of non-provable and entirely illogical, self-organizing universes of grand design somehow appearing all on their own without any input from a Grand Designer. No true skeptic, in particular Socrates and the Greeks mentioned in this same manifesto of unabashed assumption, would entertain the incredible irrationality and highly laughable proposal that design happens all by itself, apart from a Designer. It would appear that this society consists mainly of superstitious sheep gone astray from the legitimacy of true science based on the observable evidence, having fallen into a blind crevice of convoluted irrationality between the dogma of self deception and rationale of observable reality. The claim of this manifesto to espouse the "scientific method" is no more believable than Pat Robertson's claim of being an advocate for the Creator (God help us in either case). It would appear based on the observable evidence that it definitely pays to be skeptical in life. . . skeptical of the fundamentally wrong, skeptical of the scientifically myopic and skeptical of a society that pretends to be made up of skeptics.
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