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âWhoever is lead to believe that species are mutable, will do good service by conscientiously expressing his conviction, for only thus can the load of prejudice by which this subject is overwhelmed, be removed.â
Charles Darwin, Origin of Species
So what-ch-you know about Natural Selection? Go ahead
And ask a question and see where the answer gets you
Try beinâ passive aggressive or try smashinâ heads in
And see which tactic brings your plans to fruition
And if you have an explanation in mind, then youâre
Wastinâ your time, âcause the best watchmaker is blind
It takes a certain base kind of impatient mind
To explain away nature with âintelligent designâ
But the truth shall set you free
From those useless superstitious beliefs
In a literal Adam and Eve, and that Edenic myth
âCause their family tree is showinâ some genetic drift
Take it from this bald-headed non-celibate monk
With the lyrical equivalent of an elephantâs trunk
Itâs time to elevate your mind-state
And celebrate your kinship with the primates
The weak and the strong, who got it goinâ on?
We lived in the dark for so long
The weak and the strong, Darwin got it goinâ on
Creationism is dead wrong
âThe view which most naturalists entertainâ¦namely that each species has been independently created, is erroneous.â
Charles Darwin, Origin of Species
Okay, itâs time to reveal my identity
Iâm the manifestation of tens of millions
Of centuries of sexual selection, best believe
Iâm the best of the best of the best of the best
Of generations of competitive pressure genetically
But donât get upset, âcause weâve got the same pedigree
You and I will find a common ancestor eventually
If we rewind geological time regressively
And I could say the same for this hibiscus tree
And this lizard and this flea and this sesame seed
And if you still disbelieve in what your senses perceive
Then I could even use this rhyme as a remedy
âCause thereâs so much variation in the styles in this industry
And differential survival when the people listening
Decide what theyâre into and what really isnât interesting
You could thrive like Timberlake on a Timberland beat
Or go extinct like Vanilla Ice and NâSync
Itâs survival of the fittest, but fitness is a tricky thing
It changes from place to place and from winter to spring
But the real question in this social-scientific simile
Is heredity, whether we inherit our techniques
From our predecessors, or invent them independently
But then weâre talkinâ memes and thatâs a different thing
Richard Dawkins can I get a proper definition please?
The weak and the strong, who got it goinâ on?
We lived in the dark for so long
The weak and the strong, Darwin got it goinâ on
Creationism is dead wrong
The weak and the strong, who got it goinâ on?
Whoever leaves the most spawn
The weak and the strong, Darwin got it goinâ on
Creationism is⦠erroneous
I hear some people complain, like âI donât wanna be an ape!
I never came from monkey DNA!
I believe God made me in a day â Jesus saves!â
Or maybe God uses evolution when He creates?!
Either way, nothing as advanced
And beautiful and intricate as the cosmic dance
Of evolution could possibly happen by chance
We mustâve descended from quadrupeds because of Godâs plans!
Stop that â Darwinâs actual theory is
Not chance, and if you think it is youâre delirious
In the non-random survival of random variants
Over time, chance is insufficient but necessary
So intelligent design is impossible
Unless that intelligence is a product of the whole
Such as your own â thereâs no God in control
If higher complexity always evolves from low
So let it go! We came from the war of nature
From struggles among fighters, feeders, and fornicators
And weâre nothing but genetic storage containers
And so what? Fuck it, Iâm done with you Darwin-haters
The weak and the strong, who got it goinâ on
We lived in the dark for so long
The weak and the strong, Darwin got it goinâ on
Creationism is dead wrong
The weak and the strong, who got it goinâ on?
Whoever leaves the most spawn
The weak and the strong, Darwin got it goinâ on
Creationism is dead wrong
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