Creation: A Buddhist Answer (A Sonnet) Poem by Richard St. Clair

Did time and space begin with a big explosion
Just fourteen billion years ago, they say?
Or did a god create it in a day
As is the tenet, a believer's notion?
There are no witnesses to either way
To truly say which one is false or true;
What's needed is an explanation new:
Perplexing is the problem to this day!
The scientists of modern times are sure
Their theory rests on mathematic grounds;
Religionists make loudly different sounds
As if to mystify and thus allure.
But the cosmos must be infinitely old,
Not made from nothing in a vacuum cold!