Queen of Swords

This song is by "Lee Burwasser and his circle", and as near as I can remember, it was posted in 1999 on the old IIDB (the web address at the top of the printout I found is <a href="http://www.infidels.org/electronic/discussion/open/messages/8757.html." target="_blank">www.infidels.org/electronic/discussion/open/messages/8757.html.</a> Enjoy!

Thermodynamics and closing the system,
DNA helix and techs that can twist 'em,
Egyptian history without a flood break,
These are the things that creationists hate.

Wallace and Darwin and Einstein and Hawking
Asimov, Sagan and Shermer - how shocking!
Eldrige and Gould and their colleagues to date :
These are the people creationists hate.

People who know how to work with statistics,
Fossils that flesh out the map of cladistics,
Models that show how the genomes mutate,
These are the things that creationists hate.

When the fundies
Purge the textbooks,
And the schools beset,
I mention the things that creationists hate,
And that gets them all upset!

Hate the scien-
tific method;
Made up their own way :
"You must take as fact the bible
Or at least the parts we say!"

There are more species than one ark could carry,
Lightspeed inside of a vacuum won't vary,
Isotopes melt at a consistent rate,
These are the things that creationists hate.

Transitional fossils that show speciation,
Galapagos finches and random mutation,
Isotopic decay at predictable rates,
These are the things that creationists hate.

The orbit of planets is heliocentric,
Science and reason are now epidemic,
God's love to me seems a bit more like hate,
These are the things that creationists hate.

Pagan witches,
Darwin fishes
Seem to make them mad.
So they just cling to their bibles and shout
"Everything else iiiiiis bad!"

Fossil records,
Plate tectonics,
Make them really blue.
But if they relied on their mythos for food,
They wouldn't know what to do!

Well before Darwin, geologists began
Establishing that the earth's much older than
Jim Usher said, and that science refuses
To yield up the proof of a flood for the pews.

Physics has all those embarrassing laws,
Like rates of decay for the isotopes. Cause
Of the rainbow is really refraction of light,
They twist it to prove the great Book - that ain't right.

Old-Earthers think the Young-Earthers too zealous,
Young-Earthers think the Old-Earthers bad fellas.
Seeking the ark, they make trips down to Turk-
ey, each says the other's obstructing their work.

Noah's shi-ip
Seems to sli-ip
Past discovery.
Dozens say that they've found it,
But yet no recovery!

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seesaw

Heh that's funny.

luvluv

Yeah... to nerds!

Duvenoy

QoS, I loves ya!

I enjoyed that. Thanks!

doov

simian

Anybody what to sing this/put it to music. As far as I can tell, it looks like it belongs to "these are a few of my favorite things." I would listen to it. If only outside creationist gatherings.

Simian

Janaya

I would love to hear Julie Andrews sing it.

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens,
DNA helix and techs that can twist 'em,

I can hear it now.

scigirl

QueenOfSwords,

Thank you thank you for that poem! That and Oolon's "Dr Seuss" re-write should be framed somewhere around here!

scigirl

(P.S. Does anyone have a link to Oolon's poem? I couldn't find it)

Bubba

Thanks QoS.

Bubba

monkenstick

haha, has anyone hear heard of MC Hawking:

<a href="http://www.mchawking.com/multimedia.php?page_function=mp3z" target="_blank">http://www.mchawking.com/multimedia.php?page_function=mp3z</a>

scroll down, at the very bottom there's a song called "f*ck the creationists" - "entropy" is also a nice little rap about why evolution doesn't violate the 2LoT

seesaw

Hey I'm not a nerd I am a geek.