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Cherry

By Rhiannonw

Tue, 18 Jun 2019
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How does a caterpillar change
and all its innards rearrange
into a dainty butterfly?

How do the swallows navigate
vast distances as they migrate
around the earth, across the sky?

How does a programmed human egg
develop, forming brain and leg,
and wonders of the working eye?

The more they research DNA,
and spacecraft venture far away,
the ‘how’s may often mystify –
some things beyond our comprehension lie.

[IP: secrets]

 

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Comments

Submitted by Jane Hyphen on

It truly is amazing isn't it Rhiannon. The butterfly life cycle and all those eels toing and froing to the Sargasso sea back to the Thames, the mind boggles. 'Some things beyond comprehension lie' for sure and the more we find out the more complex it all seems.

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thank you, Jane. Sometimes some still seem to think scientists can fully get their mind around these things! Rhiannon

 

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

Hi Rhiannon,

isn't creation an amazing mystery, leaves you with so much wonder. I enjoyed your poem so much because it makes you realize how special and fragile we all actually are.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thanks, Jenny. Fragile, and yet working, very special! All points to a Designer, and designers find so much to help their designs of machines, but obviously can never fully understand or match in wonder! Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Ed Crane on

Nature has had three billion years to get it right, but really it never gets it right. It is just the systems that work best under the situation they find themselves in. 

Some argue it's God's way. In my mind the only way I can justify God's involvement is if he/she/it invented evolution.

(Personally I see it as biochemistry)

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

I did a degree in biochemistry, and would totally disagree with you, Ed!

The more you study the intricacy, the more impossible evolutionary change of 'chemicals to single cells to fish to mammals etc' becomes. Yes, there has been variation in the kinds (different types of horses, cats), but no evidence of big new information (sometimes loss of information can lead to a temporary success), for totally new more complex animals to develop from 'simpler' ones. There is also much evidence of the earth being much younger than millions or billions of years old. And most of the fossils had to be buried very quickly in some sort of catastrophe like a world flood.

Actually if Darwin was alive now, he might well be more cautious as he assumed that a mechanism  would one day be found. Then it became thought that mutations of genetic material might produce such change, but the more the DNA  is studied, the more it is realised that mutations are almost always harmful, and  for there to be any benefit of new characteristic, many co-incident mutations would have to occur beneficially. New organs etc have an 'irreducible complexity' that if not complete, they would be a handicap and lost in natural selection.

Anyway, why shouldn't a supernatural God be a Creator and do miracles?

Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Ed Crane on

All I can say is; when we die one of us is in for a big surprise.wink 

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Just to add that there are things bad and not working well in nature at the present, but that is from when rebellion against God started, to show our need to pray to him, and the promise that he will one day make it all absolutely perfect again. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thanks for the cherries! Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

How do you write with perfect rhyme

time after wondrous reading time

  

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thanks, Di. It's usually short ones that come in a rhyme format neatly. Those first two lines came to mind in the middle of the night, and the rest followed later, some quickly, some took awhile to feel right! Rhiannon