The Other Way
One day some men of science
Who thought that they were bright,
Set out to prove the Bible wrong
And their ideas right.
They started with creation,
And said, "This just can't be
Why the man who wrote this theory
Didn't have a PHD."
So they put their heads together
As we humans sometimes do,
And thought up this amazing tale
Which I'll relate to you.
It seems a tiny speck of dust
Was floating out in space,
When ZAP! A bolt of lightning struck
Hitting it in the face.
Well lightning's pretty powerful
As you and I know well,
But can it change a speck of dust
Into a living cell?
"We are sure that that's what happened!"
Said those BRILLIANT men.
Now we have a living cell
Let's see what happened then.
A couple hours passed away
Before the next event-
A raindrop formed around the cell-
And in the sea it went.
The feel of ice-cold water
Must have shocked him to his toe.
For suddenly that tiny cell
Began to change and grow.
Vast knowledge at those men's command
Caused them all to believe,
That first it grew a set of gills
(It needed them to breathe).
Gill cell got kind of lonely
Floating out there all alone.
Till one glad day, BY CHANCE,
He heard a tiny gill cell's moan.
He looked around about to find
The tiny moaning's source.
And saw a female gill cell
Had formed like him, of course!
Those two gill cells got together-
And before too long you know-
A hundred other gill cells
Were floating to and fro.
A few more eons passed along-
Those brilliant scholars said-
Before the gill cells grew
Some fins behind their head.
No longer at tides mercy
They went swimming to and fro.
You know there's just no telling
How far those guys will go.
The years continued swiftly by
Then like a rubber band.
A huge wave came along and tossed
Some gill cells onto land.
Another world to conquer
Was probably what they thought.
And with evolution on their side
That's exactly what they got.
From lizards crawling on the ground
Evolution worked just right-
As they changed to higher forms of life-
Some learned the art of flight.
Then finally man came on the scene-
And I'll bet it was a strain-
For evolution to evolve
The complex human brain.
Well a lot of faith is needed
To believe this was the way.
Without intelligent design
Impossible I'd say.
So I'll just believe the Bible-
For someday all men will see-
God made it all in six short days
Without a PHD.
�Jerry Hoffman
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