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[Bryan Bishop]

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Subject: [ExI] evolution poetry
Date: Sunday 11 May 2008
From: "spike" <spike66 at att.net>
To: "'ExI chat list'" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>


Someone with poetic talent posted this on another site, and didn't even 
say
who it was other than Winslow.  The term lizardoid is a political right
winger.  The poet makes fun of the political/religious right 
discrediting
itself by getting mixed up with creationism.  Its good for a laugh, 
check it
out.

spike


Who Knows?

'Twas once upon the internet I chanced upon an argument; 
A blog appeared to splinter into internecine wars. 
'Twas all precipitated by a movie dedicated to 
Portraying Darwinism as a truth-suppressing force.

A thousand comments did I read, another thousand did I feed 
Into my aching brain, yet little progress did I find. 
No sooner was a claim defeated, than it was again repeated; 
Surely there's a better way to influence a mind.

Oh Lord, I grew so weary of the cry: "It's just a theory!" for 
This charge is not dismissive in the scientific world. 
And though this point was oft explained, it did not hinder those who 
claimed

That "Theory!" is rhetorical invective to be hurled.

My neurons whirled, my senses swirled; how did man come into this world? 
I longed to take a nap, but someone said: "I've found a gap!" 
And though the gap was quickly filled, there promptly came a voice more
shrill: 
"Behold!" it cried, "I now have spied a flanking pair of gaps!"

And then, with logic so perverse it hurts to render it in verse, 
The charge was made that atheism is religious faith. 
And even Orwell would be awed by language so profoundly flawed, 
For logically, religious faith is therefore non-belief.

To try to cast theology as natural philosophy 
Is clearly what Intelligent Designers have in mind. 
Their documented strategy to wedge their way to victory 
Speaks volumes on the nature of Intelligent Design.

Though Darwin's Evolution is an elegant solution to 
The origin of species, still I hear some people say: 
"There must be something greater, so there must be a Creator," but 
Creators need creators too; it's turtles all the way.

And so it went, and so it goes, but how it all began, who knows? 
I'll check the blog tomorrow, just in case it's been resolved. 
And if, by then, we all agree on how the humans came to be, 
We'll try to answer how and why we lizardoids evolved. 


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