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 Children, behold the Chimpanzee;
 He sits on the ancestral tree
  From which we sprang in ages gone.
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 Children, behold the Chimpanzee;
 He sits on the ancestral tree
  From which we sprang in ages gone.
   I'm glad we sprang: had we held on,
    We might, for aught that I can say,
     Be horrid Chimpanzees to-day. 
I was at Euphorbus at the siege of Troy.
I was at Euphorbus at the siege of Troy.
 Or ever the knightly years were gone
 With the old world to the grave,
  I was a read more 
 Or ever the knightly years were gone
 With the old world to the grave,
  I was a king in Babylon
   And you were a Christian slave. 
Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not read more
Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles
Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And read more
Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there’s nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.
When I was a shepherd on the plains of Assyria.
When I was a shepherd on the plains of Assyria.
 There was an ape in the days that were earlier,
 Centuries passed and his hair became curlier;
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 There was an ape in the days that were earlier,
 Centuries passed and his hair became curlier;
  Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist--
   Then he was a Man and a Positivist. 
 Out of the dusk a shadow,
 Then a spark;
  Out of the cloud a silence,
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 Out of the dusk a shadow,
 Then a spark;
  Out of the cloud a silence,
   Then a lark;
    Out of the heart a rapture,
     Then a pain;
      Out of the dead, cold ashes,
       Life again. 
Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at read more
Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.