[Verse 1]
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From desert cliff and mountaintop we trace the wide de-sign,
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Strike-slip fault and overthrust and syn and anti-cline
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We gaze upon cre-ation where e-rosion makes it known,
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And count the countless aeons in the banding of the stone.
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Odd, long-vanished creatures and their tracks & shells are found;
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Where truth has left its sketches on the slate below the ground.
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The patient stone can speak, if we but listen when it talks.
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Humans wrote the Bible... God wrote the rocks.
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[Verse 2]
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There are those who name the stars, who watch the sky by night,
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Seeking out the darkest place, to better see the light.
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Long ago, when torture broke the remnant of his will,
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Galileo recanted, but the Earth is moving still.
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High above the mountaintops, where only distance bars,
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The truth has left its footprints in the dust between the stars.
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We may watch and study or may shudder and de-ny,
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Humans wrote the Bible... God wrote the sky.
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[Verse 3]
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By stem and root and branch we trace, by feather, fang and fur,
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How the living things that are de-scend from things that were.
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The moss, the kelp, the zebrafish, the very mice and flies,
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These tiny, humble, wordless things, how shall they tell us lies?
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We are kin to beasts; no other answer can we bring.
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The truth has left its fingerprints on every living thing.
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Remember, should you have to choose be-tween them in the strife,
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Humans wrote the Bible... God wrote the sky.
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[Verse 4]
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And we who listen to the stars, or walk the dusty grade,
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Or break the very atoms down to see how they are made,
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Or study cells, or living things, seek truth with open hand.
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The profoundest act of worship is to try to understand.
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Deep in flower and in flesh, in star and soil and seed,
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The truth has left its living word for anyone to read.
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So turn and look where best you think the story is unfurled.
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Humans wrote the Bible... God wrote the sky.
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