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BEFORE THE STATUE OF THE GREAT SAINT CHARLES AT SHREWSBURY..

The professor

 

(your venerator here on earth)

 

Informs us

 

That

 

Somewhere

 

(God knows where)

 

Many millions of years ago

 

(God knows when)

 

A certain self-replicating molecule

 

(God knows what)

 

Came to be

 

(God knows how)

 

And fell down

 

(God knows why)

 

Into some soup of pre-historic slime

 

(God knows which)

 

And thus

 

All this crazy, biological, world began.

 

And therefore

(Continues the professor) -

Now that we`ve been informed

Of this great, scientific,

Secular start to everything -

There`s now no need at all

For anyone to keep believing

In that great, starry, universal fiction

We all call God

………………

………………

(   The silly sod!    )

◄ TWICE BLESS`D

FOND THOUGHTS (a scouse I `oper) ►

Comments

Philipos

Sun 4th Sep 2011 18:51

I liked your clever device of conjoining the prof's interjections with your own recollections of things. Worked well for me.

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kealan coady

Sat 3rd Sep 2011 14:54

Good poem, it reminds me of the saying (i think this is it) "In the darkest depths of desperation, man created god"

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John Embley

Fri 2nd Sep 2011 10:39

Well said, Harry.
'Tis an old piece of advice, but never more appropriate -- Never try to refute religion with science, or refute science with religious argument.

Richard Dawkins would do well to acknowledge that logic and spirituality, like commonsense and love, have nothing whatsoever to do with each other, and it's just that difference which makes us human, not machines.

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Thu 1st Sep 2011 23:04

I take it you mean professor Know-all Harry!
I can tell this by your clever BOLD indicative.
A memorable poem.

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