George Washington Carver

God or Science, the skeptics say, Science is God, no need to pray. Through it, we can all knowledge gain, No need for God’s help to explain. This fallacy of idle minds creates a false dichotomy. Without God’s ken science is blind, yields speculations of all kinds. A humble man, with brilliant mind A scientist and world-renowned. Yet every day he knelt and prayed, God, “please reveal secrets to me.” His lab he nicknamed God’s workshop For this was where he felt Him near. Revealing uses hundreds fold, Of nuts that served as food for pigs. He had a chance to become rich By patenting his inventions. He chose instead to open source That all who wish could benefit. Yet not alone among his peers Of scientists, who took believed, In God the divine creator, Of Nature, their laboratory.