Two Sides of the Same Coin

Something that has always fascinated me

Is the idea of 

Creation.

But I associate creation

With… well.

I was taught

Before I started school

To be sceptical of those that believed in 

Beings in the sky.

I was taught

Before ‘creation’ meant anything to me

That evolution is the way we got here.

There are scientific explanations 

Proof and records and DNA and more

That detail exactly how 

Humans and plants and organisms and insects

Are evolving to suit their environments.

Evolution was a definite.

Evolution was fact.

But when I got to school

And I met people

I learned the concept of believing

In the people in the sky.

This concept

Of higher power

Devotion

Life after death

Determined by someone you never meet?

CAPTURED me.

And, like anything else I have ever been captured by

I did an insane amount of research.

Buddhism, Islam, Ancient Greece and Rome

Christianity and segregated churches and Jehovah’s Witness 

Paganism and Hinduism and the Ant Hill Kids

Jonestown and the Black Plague and gospel and marriage.

I think the thing that stumps most people with religion

Is how heavily intrenched it is in history.

And I don’t disagree

When people express that it shouldn’t be that way.

But 99% of the time

Those people only view religion – and creation, at that

Through one lens.

For me, 

The part that fascinated me the most 

About the interconnectedness of 

Religion and creation

Was how it differed

In every corner of the world.

God and Allah

Mount Everest and the Mariana Trench 

Lakshmi and Aphrodite

Stonehenge and the 12 Apostles

Buddha and Zeus

Megalodon and bull sharks.

How?

How could so many things have parallels

In the same planet

But directly contradict each other at the same time?

How cool is it,

That people found similar explanations

For the same questions

But those answers evolved 

Into completely different societies and stories

Still existing and changing today?

Creation and religion.

Two sides of the same coin.

Two explanations for the impossible question

How did we get here?

Fighting to be the one that is universally accepted as the right answer

Yet too interconnected and timeless and unique and similar

To  have one come out on top.

So we wait.

And wonder.

As the world changes around us, almost too quickly 

Or too slowly to notice.

Evie Taylor, Year 11