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Theories Are Not Facts

The Big Bang Theory and others devised.
Professors armed with latest editions.
Soon, teach as facts; oh, faith of youth revised.
Inspired, common suppositions.
Biblical creation too soon capsized.
Unaware, youth accepts false traditions.
Half-truths and questions upon young minds flay. 
It irks me;  I saw my faithfulness stray.

Had God finished his work in seven days?
But fields of plants and herbs had not been formed!
Had Adam not yet met his earthly phase?
That contradiction through my faith once stormed.
And countless questions set my soul ablaze.
Is Chapter two of Genesis malformed?
I prayed for answers; turned again to faith.
Pondering, wondering until Christ’s waith.

Inklings energized my logical mind.
For Genesis, decoding must be found. * 
One’s faith in God never has to be blind!
Ask many questions with thoughts heaven bound.
Upon my brain, some secret truths would bind.
Before too long, the logic came around.
Yes, answer found, years ago; set me free.
Those first days began molecularly.

By searching fact and theory my trust grew.
I prayed for wisdom as I pondered life.
Past doubtful years had sent my faith askew.
Those days watched science lace my heart with strife.
But, God above would see my trust renew.
With deepest thought a helpful book was penned.
Genesis Decoded, brought faith, again.

I know there is a God who made all things.
Laws of physics and each atom show his force.
Genetics explored God’s created string. 
Now, scientists have altered nature’s source.
Relativity, the Theory, God sings,
Molecules are moving along their course.
So let us feel and know wherein truth lies.
Upon the facts, not schemes, forever cries. 

Written for Poetry Soup Member Contest:  Don't write for the contest, Contest 	
Sponsored by: Vicky Tsiluma

Ó January 26, 2014
Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
* http://www.redbubble.com/people/daneann/writing/3355478-genesis-decoded
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gap-between-science-and-religion-the-hypothesis

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Nette Onclaud Date: 1/29/2014 5:07:00 PM divinely written.. science now is merging with spirituality, dane.. sweet congrats!.. huggs Login to Reply Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen Date: 2/7/2014 8:36:00 AM Thank you, Nette, for your sweet support. I have hoped that science and religion would merge. Over the years of writing, posting, reading and praying...little by little, it's happening. I hope I played a small part in it after 30 years of putting ideas out there and praying that some scientist would pick up the idea and run! I even sent a letter to Stephen Hawking, once. Big Smiles, Dane Ann

Richard Lamoureux Date: 1/29/2014 8:43:00 AM I like this thoughtful write, I too believe in our most amazing creative God. No detail is to small or to large for him. Congratulations. Login to Reply Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen Date: 2/7/2014 8:39:00 AM Thank you, Richard for your congratulations. I am very passionate on the subject of creation and have been since my college days...after studying Heredity and Evolution. I could NOT LET GO of GOD even though he had taken a back seat in my life for a while, sadly, so. God is WONDERFUL! Big Smiles, Dane Ann

Vicky Tsiluma Date: 1/29/2014 2:09:00 AM Very well said Dane! Often people are blinded by theories. We are born into a set of beliefs and practices - it takes a wise person to go beyond the beliefs to find out the source and cause and come to a conclusion as to whether to accept them or reject them. Poignant poem - very well thought out and executed. Login to Reply Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen Date: 2/7/2014 8:48:00 AM Thank you, Vicky. Yes, we are born into a set of beliefs that influence our lives. Each of us is born with an internal spiritual spark as well. It burns for truth among the winds of the world. If we hold true and listen to that spirit guide within us, we will find truth. The truth is, was, and always will be whatever it is...no matter what man may think it is or is not. I learned those wise words from a professor at Jacksonville University on summer when I took a course there about teaching science. I was impressed that he taught us to teach theories as just that THEORIES. He mentioned that all too often, theories are taught as fact..