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 I’ve met a “brilliant scientist,”

That’s what he says he is,[i]

Educated in the finest schools

And in his field, a wiz’

Respected highly by his peers,

For they like what they hear,

With great finesse and skillful words,

He can caress an ear.[ii]

But, he tells me things which make no sense,

Pure logic they defy.

I just don’t understand it,

Although I try and try.

He tells me that the living cell,

More complex than NASA’s shuttle,

Accidentally came to be

In an ancient slimy puddle.

Then he says the second cell

Must have come through cell division,

An accidental process

More complex than NASA’s mission.

Then he says “by accident,

Cells grew more complex,”

Then by chance did specialize

Becoming all unique aspects

Of multi-cellular organisms

Such as brain and teeth and toes,

The beating heart, the coursing blood,

The liver, hair and nose.[iii]

And somehow all our systems,

Well, they just came to be,

From respiratory and digestive,

To the brain’s complexity[iv]

And somehow innate knowledge,

Such as when and how to eat

Well it was yet another

Amazing, unplanned feat.

Then he tells me senses,

Sight, sound, taste, touch and smell,

Too complex to duplicate,

Were accidents as well.

Next he tells me ‘one thing’

Evolved somehow to ‘two,’

A male and female, both required

To reproduce anew.[v]

Then he says that mammals,

The mom and baby too,

Somehow both evolved at once,

To nurse the way they do.

He says this all just happened,

And God does not exist.[vi]

He will not see a billion facts,

The truth, he does resist.

Thus, he says all life forms

The rat, skunk, leech and flea,

Each “my distant relative,”

Mean just as much as me,

But God says something different,

He says I am a treasure,

Created in His image,

For His eternal pleasure.[vii]

 He says that He made people

With ‘free will’ and the choice,

‘Make Him Lord and Savior,

And eternally rejoice.’

For He also knew with ‘free wills,’

Wrong choices would be made,[viii]

And justice would require a

Heavy penalty be paid.[ix]

But as a loving father,

For His child would pay a fine,

He became a man and bore the cross,[x]

So mercy could be mine.

And after death, He rose again[xi]

And now prepares a place[xii]

For all the truly humble

Who will accept His grace.

Now, this is truly brilliance:

To avoid the fires of Hell,[xiii]

By accepting love and mercy

Which He’s seeking to unveil.[xiv]

Fulfilling our life’s purpose,

‘Accepting Him as Lord,’

Then live in endless paradise,[xv]

Where He will be adored.

[i]Romans 1:21,22 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools . . .