Hello, Cousin
Hello, Cousin?
By Elton Camp
From an apelike brute they say we’re descended
But I wonder if the ape would be highly offended
Charles Darwin was the first man known to see
Just how a thing like that could possibly be
He served as a naturalist onboard a sailing ship
And the Beagle, to the Galapagos took a trip
Finches on the islands gave him an inspiration
That the church said would lead to his damnation
“Why, that blasphemous, evil, atheist ball of slime
Claims that plants and animals change over time.”
“But we all know the earth was made in just a week
So a claim like Darwin’s makes us want to shriek.”
He insisted that the way present life did arrive
Is that it had to be the fittest that would survive
Those who ridiculed him, he didn’t mind to tell
“As far as I am concerned, you can go to hell.”
But over time, the church had a change of view
Now it thinks that what he said may well be true
Whenever it is a huffing, puffing reverend that I see
Then it sort of makes me wonder if it just might be
Copyright © Elton Camp | Year Posted 2012
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