Darwin’s Natural Selection Mystery Poem by Margaret Alice

For the first time I read
about the problems that
beset Darwin’s attempts
to formulate his theory
of natural selection

The problems he faced
with the age of the earth
and species which must
have given birth to man
and all the cataclysms

That formed canyons
and mountains - I love
what he did, forging on
against as formidable
a foe as Lord Kelvin

The difficulty in wrestling
the facts of nature from
ancient records, looking
for truth in geology and
later even astronomy

The record of man’s quest
for the origin of the universe
is the best mystery
there is!

Martin Gorst “Aeons – The Search for the
Beginning of Time” Chapter 9