Shortly after I moved into a retirement home in Lincolnwood, a fellow resident persuaded me to sign up for a fall series of lectures on the Bible offered by the faculty of Northwestern University. The first lecture, on Genesis, was so stimulating it kept me awake later, so I got up and wrote a few lines of verse:
Do you know of the birth
of this planet called Earth?
Was it God who began
this magnificent plan?
In six days no less
Did it all coalesce?
Was Day 7 the best
For God to seek rest?
(And was he elated
at the world he created?)
What theory to accept:
Bible’s linear time concept?
Or Aristotle’s notion
of circular motion? AND
Must we never infer
though the Earth did occur
that there was a source
be it God or some Force?
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