Millard Lowe Poet Sonnet

In Allusion To Questions On Science and Religion

IN ALLUSION TO QUESTIONS ON SCIENCE AND RELIGION

Continuous documents of life lived and gone
Lay buried beneath Earth’s various layers:
More precious than gold is petrified bone;
Save the questioning of the Creation Sayers.
Cannot dead evidence give life to truth?
Is there reason that Noah’s Arch must be fantasy?
Should we question the lesson of Ruth?
What religion teaches, science gives it creative reality.
Faith is nourished on belief in both seen and unseen;
Science, on empirical evidence of what was and now is:
Both relying on what is revealed of the beginning scene—
What daunting challenge to our pillars of intellectual tiers?
Is not the revelations unearthed by the faithful pursuit of paleontology
The resurrected evidence of that which has given rise to our religiosity?

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Skat A December 12, 2015 at 9:51 PM Wow, many thoughts to ponder on. Enjoyed. Skat Millard Lowe December 13, 2015 at 9:27 AM SKAT, Thanks for the read and feedback. Indeed, we must ponder least we take all for granted; including our own earthly sojourn. Peace and love. M. Lowe