Peder
Well-Known Member
Miracle
Divine intervention in the ordinary course of human affairs
Has long been the primary meaning of miracle, unexpected
Inexplicable departure from all reason and event, but now
Our extensive scientific knowledge permits the extension
To a meaning entirely within the realm of science, consistent
With all knowledge but still not reasonably foreseeable
Until it occurs and transition to a new reality appears
Entirely without the assumed action of ethereal presence;
As, for example, in the appearance of our universe from
A still not understood conjectured primordial nothingness;
Or, for example again, in the appearance of primitive life;
Primitive and protozoal perhaps, but a living moving replicating
Life form in an otherwise lifeless environment of lifeless
Geologic materials, rocks, sediments, minerals, water,
From which all species and varieties of life have developed;
Or for further example, the development over aeonic times
No doubt, of the brain's capacity for imagination, the ability
To see things unseen, think thoughts unthought, both useful
And inutile, beyond the strict exigencies of thinking necessary
For immediate survival, to both penetrate and shape the future;
Or, fourth, the ability of our grey matter and nervous system to
Have feelings, among all especially the feeling of compassion;
And when eventually men can experience compassion
For all members of the human race and finally live in peace
All over the planet and perhaps throughout the settled solar system,
Heeding the commandment from millennia ago to love one another
Then perhaps there will be consensus
And that will indeed be called a miracle.
Divine intervention in the ordinary course of human affairs
Has long been the primary meaning of miracle, unexpected
Inexplicable departure from all reason and event, but now
Our extensive scientific knowledge permits the extension
To a meaning entirely within the realm of science, consistent
With all knowledge but still not reasonably foreseeable
Until it occurs and transition to a new reality appears
Entirely without the assumed action of ethereal presence;
As, for example, in the appearance of our universe from
A still not understood conjectured primordial nothingness;
Or, for example again, in the appearance of primitive life;
Primitive and protozoal perhaps, but a living moving replicating
Life form in an otherwise lifeless environment of lifeless
Geologic materials, rocks, sediments, minerals, water,
From which all species and varieties of life have developed;
Or for further example, the development over aeonic times
No doubt, of the brain's capacity for imagination, the ability
To see things unseen, think thoughts unthought, both useful
And inutile, beyond the strict exigencies of thinking necessary
For immediate survival, to both penetrate and shape the future;
Or, fourth, the ability of our grey matter and nervous system to
Have feelings, among all especially the feeling of compassion;
And when eventually men can experience compassion
For all members of the human race and finally live in peace
All over the planet and perhaps throughout the settled solar system,
Heeding the commandment from millennia ago to love one another
Then perhaps there will be consensus
And that will indeed be called a miracle.