WHENCE AND WHEREFORE

                     It cannot be this All is accident,
                     The multiverse no more than happenstance,
                     But proceeds from a Mind with an intent,
                     A plan that it’s invented to advance;
                     For surely life on Earth, and humankind
                     Especially, is evidence that some
                     Cosmic Intelligence had us in mind
                     With a design for what we might become,
                     Evolving beyond brutal beastliness
                     Into a consciousness cosmically informed,
                     Instructing us the way we should progress,
                     And by an innate sense of kindness warmed:
                          Good Orderly Direction, known as GOD,
                          Has raised us to this eminence from sod.

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