Man: Created By God

Had man developed from one single cell,
Guided only by nature, without God,
Conflicted at each step. the weakest fell,
Chance directing what change in the path trod,
God's believers have one question to ask:
"Of all life-forms that survived the process,
Why does man only in supremacy bask?
It is his brain, you say, that gives him success?
Well, then, if you don't mind, answer me this:
Isn't it likely blind chance would have caused
Two or more life-forms with brains to exist,
Rather than one ere the process paused?
The odds of just man with brain are zero
Without God to design the whole tableaux*!

*tableaux = development of man and universe

The Christian army has its problems, one being the 'young earth' fanatics.
They believe fanatically that God created man in a literal 7-day one week period about 6000 years ago, and their public opposition to Darwin's theory of evolution and a 13.7 billion-year creation has brought ridicule upon Christ's believers. It makes the general public look at us with skepticism and prevents many from joining us, thinking we're all nutty. I assure you that is not the case---you don't have to leave your brain outside of the church to be a Christian.

The three most damaging events of this kind are the conviction of Galileo of heresy, forcing him to make a public recant of his insistence that the earth revolved about the sun, not vice versa; the ex-communication of Charles Darwin from the Anglican Church for his theory in The Origin of the Species; and the prosecution of John Scopes in Dayton, Tennessee, by my namesake, William Jennings Bryan, in 1925, in which he was found guilty and fined $100. The Catholic Church now has pardoned Galileo; the Anglican Church has recently apologized and reinstated Darwin; and Tennessee repealed the anti-evolution statute after Clarence Darrow, defending Stokes 'cut Bryan to ribbons' on the witness stand as an expert witness for the Bible. The Bible Belt 12-man jury was never going to acquit Scopes of the charge. The fine was only a token, the most the judge had the nerve to impose.

Today the young-earth fringe is campaigning in every state to prevent science textbooks from teaching evolution, trying to substitute creation by intelligent design for it. The irony is that the latter belief is fact, and even Albert Einstein concluded that since nothing whatsoever existed before the "Big Bang" occurred, there had to be intelligent design (translation: God) as the source of all matter. I don't believe anyone is going to ridicule Einstein's brain. Christianity and science have no differences; bring your brain to Christ!