Genesis
Story or fact?
It doesn’t matter
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To the elders
They choose to believe
What they were taught
Our religion now
By their elders
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Gives us the freedom
To believe what we choose
Science
Or
The Genesis narrative
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Our kids
They’re not the same
By grade two
They are taught
Evolution
And the Big Bang
In Catholic
Institutions
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Their confusion
Not addressed
They take their
Own point of view
Or their parent’s
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The Bible
The Old Testament
A book of stories
The New Testament
They believe
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A child I know
An avid reader
Just nine
Reading her copy
Of the Sunday
School Bible
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There is no heaven
Above
She said
There’s constellations
One hundred billion galaxies
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Science is truth
Said her mother
The Bible stories
Are part
Of our culture
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That one sweeping
Statement
Wiped away
The whole of
The Old Testament
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That child
Her faith busted
May even doubt
The new
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It’s high time
We tackle this
Head on
It doesn’t matter
Whether the universe
Was created
In seven days
Or thirteen billion years
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Whether Adam and Eve
Existed
Or whether we evolved from apes
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Or we were created
By intelligent design
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What matters
Is that
We were created
By that great I Am
Who exists since time immemorial
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That the universe too
Is energy and matter
There has to be energy
To create matter
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The Big Bang
May have started
With a tiny dot
Of immense force
Or as now they say
A giant egg
Which burst
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Some say the universe
Has been
Expanding
And contacting
Back
To a tiny dot
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Doesn’t matter
There is a force
Immense energy
That science admits
Exists
Unexplainable
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So no matter what
Genesis says
Myth or truth
Or a myth
Containing a truth
That we are
God’s creation
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The fact remains
The creator creates
And that’s what
The narrator
Of Adam and Eve
Tells us
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God exists
He created
The universe
And all in it
And us
He is
Our Father
Our God
The great
I AM
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