Tuesday, March 26, 2013

I Beg to Differ


     Tell me which, Doctor Krauss, are the atoms of evil
     Why would oxygen care even a whit
     Whether it’s air, fire, water, or earth?
     And just when did “better” enter the universe?
     After the nexus of Nothing decided
     To forego its formlessness--Big Bang and boil?
     Fling ever forward its super-hot plasma
     To cool and congeal to this present condition 
     Of me chiding you for not seeing how
     Science in all of its manifest wisdom
     Won’t favor one phase of matter over another,
     Or say with conviction why truth must be simple
     Or good should be chosen?  Then before you next
     Take religion to task for its history of physical
     Ignorance, ask if lives lived in love, courage,
     And hope were abjectly defective simply in that
     They wrongly regarded their world as flat. 
        

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