Creation Debates

One side says we 
were born by the slowest
labor of evolution
over millennia
after many species, us 
supreme, were finally
created

Another says, a power
higher, bigger, scarier
made everything for us 
and then made us
in his(?) image to 
learn and live
his(?) teachings with faith

But dear ones both
on either side
don’t you see
this is not a debate of 
myth vs logic
as both stories 
are filled with
logic and myth

the story you hear again
and again becomes 
akin to logic
and the myth in both
is that evolution stopped, 
nothing better, more powerful 
after humans would evolve.

Both stories 
narcissistically
put us proudly
at the center of a
universe so complex
diverse, 
fathomless,
beyond the 
processing power of 
our most powerful 
computers
this fact makes
both stories 
unfortunately, 
deeply illogical and 
gravely mythical

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Written while feeling inspired by the words and art of Ishmael by Daniel Quinn.

Photo by Laura Olsen on Unsplash