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Tell me, my friend,  
does infinity not unsettle your reason,  
or is it a comfort—to believe it meaningless?  

Look beyond the rust of your disbelief—  
this isn’t the frostbitten dogma you imagine.  
This is the marrow of things,  
     the architecture of why.  

I will not shout down your doubt,  
for doubt itself is holy—  
     when it seeks.  

But you must tell me,  
     where does your faith in chance find its footing?  
How does a void birth a universe  
     that can ask the question *“why?”*  

How does nothingness  
     dream of everything?  

You speak of time  
     as if it were an architect without a blueprint,  
     a mason with no stone,  
as if the cradle of quarks and leptons—  
     driftwood in an aimless tide—  
could sculpt itself into sonnets of DNA,  
     into the calculus of longing,  
     into hands that fold  
          not just in hunger,  
               but in hope.  

**Accident**, you say?  
     Do accidents compose symphonies?  

I have mapped the double helix,  
     traced the phosphate spine like a pilgrim's path  
     through deserts of nucleotides,  
          and yet—  

not one formula tells me why  
     a mother sings before her child can even mimic sound,  
why music, intangible and unmeasurable,  
     moves us to tears,  
why a symphony composed by deaf hands  
     speaks to souls across centuries,  
why a widow still sets two plates  
     long after the other seat stays still.  

Tell me,  
     have you ever touched beauty and felt it—  
     not with your hands  
          but with your pulse,  
a knowing that beauty is real  
     and cannot lie?  

You speak of science as though it is your fortress,  
but do you not see—  
     science is but a keyhole,  
     a narrow gaze into a cathedral unbuilt by man?  

They call it the anthropic principle—  
     our universe, custom fit—  
as if probability could love us,  
as if the cosmic dice...  

Is it not strange that the dice rolled once,  
     and the numbers fell infinite  
          in favor of us?  

Tumbling blind through void,  
     would roll out gravity just right,  
     carve carbon’s precise lattice,  
     stretch the strong nuclear force to bind—  
          not an inch too much,  
          not a breath too less—  

and yet,  
     do your numbers weep for joy at such precision?  
Can atoms, indifferent, colliding—  
     yet arranging themselves to think,  
     to dream,  
     to love?  

And what of history—  
not the brittle scrolls of forgotten empires,  
but the blood-scrawled pages of one life,  
     nailed between heaven and earth  
     when the Passover moon hung low over Golgotha,  

     and Tacitus took note,  
     and Pliny questioned,  
     and Josephus, though reluctant, wrote His name.  

A myth does not leave empty tombs  
     that confound centuries,  
nor burial linens folded with intent,  
nor does it transform a cowering band of fishermen  
     into fearless heralds before kings unshaken.  

A myth does not incite  
     a hundred witnesses to martyrdom,  
does not birth a movement that outlives empires,  
does not see skeptics—  
     like James and Paul—  
fall to their knees,  
     trading doubt for devotion.  

You say, *"Love is chemistry."*  
Dopamine, oxytocin,  
     a trick of the limbic past—  

Yet, tell me—  
     why does the martyr march to the stake?  
Why does the old man in a cold prison cell  
     scrawl words for a people he will never see?  
And why, after thirty silver pieces,  
     does a man return them with trembling hands  
     before stepping into the night alone?  

What of Gödel, examining proofs  
     of an infinite mind behind the mind?  
What of Flew, the atheist  
     who found God in DNA?  
What of Penrose, speaking of consciousness  
     beyond mere matter?  

What of Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Collins, Lennox—  
     men and women who, in measuring orbits  
     and falling apples,  
found their knees bent beneath the weight  
     of knowing they were known?  

What if all your doubt  
     was nothing more  
          than a crying child  
               seeking milk?  

 And what of evil—  

if there is no God,  
     then why do we call it evil at all?  
Why does the murderer run,  
     why does the thief hide,  
     why does the world groan  
          under the weight of its own darkness?  

Is it not the absence of good,  
     a shadow cast only by something real?  

And if He stayed His hand  
     from allowing choice,  
would love itself not wither  
     into mere automation?  

Is not free will the soil  
     where both evil and virtue take root,  
and is He not the one who redeems  
     even the darkest soil?  

Would you call injustice mere miscalculation,  
     or suffering just statistical inevitability?  

What if the voice you resist  
     is the one that stitched your every synapse,  
and the question lodged in your chest  
     is not a rejection,  
          but a reaching?  
I have seen men die empty,  
     and I have seen them die full—  
and those who go with His name on their lips  
     do not clutch at the air in the end.  

Tell me,  
     why does this chase you?  
Why does every civilization  
     etch eternity into its bones?  
Why does the longing for meaning  
     gnaw at even the most stubborn skeptic?  

Why, if all is chance,  
     does your heart demand  
          justice,  
          purpose,  
          love?  
Why, if all is entropy,  
     does your own soul resist—  
          against the wind?  

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