{"id":21670,"date":"2014-02-14T14:54:09","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T19:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=21670"},"modified":"2014-02-14T14:54:09","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T19:54:09","slug":"the-word-of-god-by-cat-faber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/02\/the-word-of-god-by-cat-faber.html","title":{"rendered":"The Word of God by Cat Faber"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

<\/iframe>\n<\/p>I am grateful to Stewart for drawing this song to my attention, and to Brian Bowman for pointing out that those who point to this divinely-authored evidence can still say that they are citing the \u2018Verse. Both come from a comment on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/02\/answers-in-genesis-cartoon-fixed.html#comment-1244070247\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">this earlier post<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe song is sung here by Kathy Mar, I believe, and is originally by Cat Faber. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.echoschildren.org\/CDlyrics\/WORDGOD.HTML\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Here are the lyrics<\/a>:<\/p>\n<h2>The Word of God<\/h2>\nLyrics and melody \u00a9 1994 by Catherine Faber<\/em><\/p>\nFrom desert cliff and mountaintop we trace the wide design,<\/span><\/p>\nStrike-slip fault and overthrust and syn and anticline. . .<\/p>\nWe gaze upon creation where erosion makes it known,<\/p>\nAnd count the countless aeons in the banding of the stone.<\/p>\nOdd, long-vanished creatures and their tracks & shells are found;<\/p>\nWhere truth has left its sketches on the slate below the ground.<\/p>\nThe patient stone can speak, if we but listen when it talks.<\/p>\nHumans wrote the Bible; God wrote the rocks.<\/p>\nThere are those who name the stars, who watch the sky by night,<\/span><\/p>\nSeeking out the darkest place, to better see the light.<\/p>\nLong ago, when torture broke the remnant of his will,<\/p>\nGalileo recanted, but the Earth is moving still.<\/p>\nHigh above the mountaintops, where only distance bars,<\/p>\nThe truth has left its footprints in the dust between the stars.<\/p>\nWe may watch and study or may shudder and deny,<\/p>\nHumans wrote the Bible; God wrote the sky.<\/p>\nBy stem and root and branch we trace, by feather, fang and fur,<\/span><\/p>\nHow the living things that are descend from things that were.<\/p>\nThe moss, the kelp, the zebrafish, the very mice and flies,<\/p>\nThese tiny, humble, wordless things\u2014how shall they tell us lies?<\/p>\nWe are kin to beasts; no other answer can we bring.<\/p>\nThe truth has left its fingerprints on every living thing.<\/p>\nRemember, should you have to choose between them in the strife,<\/p>\nHumans wrote the Bible; God wrote life.<\/p>\nAnd we who listen to the stars, or walk the dusty grade,<\/span><\/p>\nOr break the very atoms down to see how they are made,<\/p>\nOr study cells, or living things, seek truth with open hand.<\/p>\nThe profoundest act of worship is to try to understand.<\/p>\nDeep in flower and in flesh, in star and soil and seed,<\/p>\nThe truth has left its living word for anyone to read.<\/p>\nSo turn and look where best you think the story is unfurled.<\/p>\nHumans wrote the Bible; God wrote the world.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I am grateful to Stewart for drawing this song to my attention, and to Brian Bowman for pointing out that those who point to this divinely-authored evidence can still say that they are citing the \u2018Verse. 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