Cliff Leigh

You've probably heard there’s been great debate of how things came to be and of our fate. I offer this fable to stir up the pot. It’s of a queen from a land that is not. It’s of a time that never has been. But in it there’s Truth, so let’s begin. Although it’s in rhyme, it’s not easy fare. Some thinking’s required so reader beware! Past the Straits of Bernoosti, through a midwinter squall, ‘round the Horn of Good Plenty, far away from it all, sailed a dauntless zoologist on a mission most regal. He was known near and wide as Lord Lewis de Beagle. To the Isle of Knish, he was sent by the Queen to find a sensation for the Royal Museum. It would open its doors on the twelfth of July and needed a corker to be a surprise to all of Her subjects from throughout the nation who’d visit the day of its great celebration. Undaunted and curious as no one could be, a servant of science, Lord Lewis de B fought typhoons and whirlpools, and fenced with swordfish to reach the dark shores of the Isle of Knish. Rare birds and strange mammals were known there to roam. With a team of great hunters, he’d bring some back home to tickle the fancy and throw in a tizzy Her Personage Most Royal, Queen Victoralizzie. But ideas and research were Lewis’s meat; he trained as a scribe at great scientist’s feet. They taught him to look, and to dig, and to probe, to scan every cell and describe each microbe. Then make proposals of why things are so, predicting beforehand how they may go. “When you have pondered each fact from your query, then you may postulate logical theory. But theories are guesses, not fact, my dear Lew, ‘til tested and tested, and proved to be true. For man’s eyes are short and can’t always see around every corner and up every tree. Truth’s always truth, Lew, no matter the theorem. Its voices will speak. Do have clear ears to hear them. Science, so-called, is a marvelous way to give glory to God for all He has made. But be careful, my son; be not puffed up with pride nor vain in your thoughts and His Word deny” ...... (Read the rest of "Tyrus: A Fable on Creation" upon request)