Sonnet

I have told you all this.
That your faith may not be shaken.
There is somewhere a truth which I must not miss.
My efforts to find it must not slacken.

How can I equate science with faith.
The Universe is thirteen billion years old.
At first it was dark with scattered hydrogen atoms, like a wraith.
All was utterly dead and cold.

If one atom was the size of a ping pong ball.
The next would half way to the moon.
They were finally pulled together by gravity’s call.
Five hundred million years to create the first star was none too soon.

Was it nuclear fusion that gave the first light.
Or did God say Let There Be Light.

Haiku

Did the first light come
From nuclear fusion
And did God give light