Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Evolution

Not meant to be taken as a serious argument.

Consider
the Theory of Evolution.
I know we had to come from somewhere,
But is that the solution?
If you tell me my great-great-grandfather back
 millions of years was an amoeba,
I’m not sure I believe ya.
But yeah, I can see we might have crawled
up from the primordial ooze,
since people still love snakeskin bags
and alligator shoes.

In the nineteenth century
society got in a flap because
Mr Darwin spent some time
poking around Galapagos.
He studied and wrote a book,
The Origins of Species,
about why birds fly, fish swim
and dogs go round on leashes,
while human beings progressed
into womankind and man,
and things have never been the same
since the fossils hit the fan.

Some hailed him as a hero, some said he’d got it wrong,
some stuck with the ideas that had served them all along.
I’m not taking any side, either
Evolutionist or Creationist;
but there are questions that occur
to any observationist:
like, if there’s anything at all in the Theory of Evolution,
what I don’t understand
is, why, after all the millennia
mothers have never developed even
one extra hand.