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Williams' Lament: "Natural selection maximizes shortsighted selfishness no matter how much pain or loss it produces and, from a human point of view, is grossly immoral."
"Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put on this earth to rise above." - Katherine Hepburn's character in The African Queen

Monday, January 23, 2006

A Funny Song

This guy Don Wise wrote these funny lyrics, meant to be sung to the stirring tune (it really is, if you think about it) of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" . Here is also read a neat interview with my new hero.


My bones proclaim a story of incompetent design.
My back still hurts, my sinus clogs, my teeth just won’t align.
If I had drawn the blueprint, I would cer-tain-ly resign.
Incompetent Design!
Evo-Evo-Evo-lution! Design is but a mere illusion.
Darwin sparked our revolution. Science SHALL prevail!

Of course, essential tragedy in the world goes much farther than only the poor design of our own bodies, but I still love the song.

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