If I Could Create a Tree Today

If I Could Create a Tree Today

(How Old Will it Be Tomorrow?)

Glen Navis

I had a chance the other day to hear once again

The age of this old mighty earth proclaimed by learned men

Six billion, four hundred million years stated as a fact

Made me wonder why they sound so sure - the humility they lack

They said we count the rings of trees and layers of river stone

The depth of mountain canyons, the height of cinder cone.

Then I mused, what does this prove? Does Creation not belong?

Has science proved beyond a doubt the Bible must be wrong?

But, what if for, just one prayer, I had Gods power to create

A simple tree with branches wide and height of sixty-eight

And, next day, a scientist, on a quest its age to know

Cut down the tree to count the rings - just what would that show?

Would he declare the tree is one day old - as I, its creator, - knew

Or count the rings and state beyond a doubt - the tree is fifty-two.

And what if, to carry on this thought, when God Creation designed

Had created a sky looking just one day old, would we ever call it sublime?