In the beginning

Inflation stretched the early cosmos flat
an isotropic slate on which to draw
and fluctuations acted upon that
accreting galaxies from quantum flaws
where Paley saw a deity's firm hand
astronomers perceived that we are free
no blueprint underlies a scheme so grand
the evidence is in the CMB
as gaps get filled, religion's province shrinks
our intellects trade myths for hard-won sense
creation stands revealed to one who thinks
without invoking God's intelligence
John's gospel starts it all with the great Word
but science makes that fable look absurd