“Foiled by Metaphysics” a poem by the Bard of Murdock

It’s Sunday and today’s poem by The Bard of Murdock takes aim at scientists trying to explain away  God. The poem was originally published on Saturday, September 22, 2012. Please be sure to read the article linked by the Bard before reading the  poem.

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Foiled by Metaphysics

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Article link: Will Science Someday Rule Out the Possibility of God?

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A novel strain of thought persists

Among our leading physicists,

That proving quantum gravity

Will end theistic pravity.

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For physicists are doctrinaire

About the God that isn’t there,

And work their lives to demonstrate

That God did not, in fact, create.

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Which seems an awful way to live:

To try to prove a negative.

And further to perplex, perform

The task on that which has no form.

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By use of methods bound in laws

That cannot measure matter’s cause,

The physicists cannot explain

Existence in another plane.

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And then, succumbing to the crime

Of yielding to Eternal Time,

They hide behind a PhD,

And end debate with “Q.E.D.”

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The Bard of Murdock

My goal is to produce poetical cartoons. I try to use metaphors and caricatures (or a politician’s own words) to address complex political and social situations. In this way, I sum up current events in humorous verse.