Bulverism

A name which has no meaning
A philosophy which can find none;
If given the proof of God
It shall say, "No, knowledge, I shall shun."

For at the end of its existence
It questions the very truth
Of our objective reality
And counts all facts as rude.

For, I ask you, Bartholomew, 
What knowledge can there be?
For you said knowledge doth not prove
That God's existence can be seen?

Yet, what of the chemical which doth make a scent?---
Which has changed in my nostril?---
The smell of onion made different?---
Or the sight of woman, doth this also prove

That upon my cornea, there is no way to view
What is real, and no way to truly know?
For that is the question, you have to answer my
Nasty and unworthy foe.

Does objective reality exist within the sense?
The answer is, without God, no, it truly can't.
For the eye would just be neurons firing in a vat
Of cholesterol, which makes the nose a synaptic trap.

So smells are different from man to man
And maybe tastes are, too; and maybe sight
And maybe sound, and maybe all things pulled.
Therefore, without God how can knowledge be?

For without Him to make things proven
How can knowledge, knowledge truly be?
Yet, if two men find through their senses
The same thing that makes it true,

If it is witnesses who've found it
Then God by witnesses is here proved.
For if there is reality, and things which we all share,
There must be a God to make it so,

And here is why, my dear:

Because the presupposition I hold
Is based on concrete science
Of philosophy so auld
I will give you a reason pliant:

For if all things come to doubt
The material world we know---
Which it soon comes to be---
We must have reason to share what's told.---

Or else be trapped in our own conscience.
For if all things, material or not,
Be presupposed you say,
Then that presupposition is predicated on

An objective world you say.
Yet, what if in the near future
That objective world we'd doubt?
Then it would need relate back to God

That is what I am all about.
In order for knowledge to exist
It takes even a leap of faith.
For knowledge is borne by witnesses

Yet, by witnesses there must still be grace.

Thus we come to the end of the song
And that is what Bulverism is---
It is men who deny the facts
Based on their belief that aught is hid

From the truth, so they can never truly discover.
Men need, rather, be, the truths' wedded,
Sultry lover.