Apr 13 2013
Reading Taslima’s recent posts, here and here, I was taken aback, just a bit. I mean, I really don’t think we need to look to our closest relatives to see common ancestry. I took this picture a few years ago, and I can’t look at it without thinking he or she is my cousin. (Mind …
Feb 12 2013
In honor of his birthday today (sorry, Abe Lincoln, I don’t have one for you): On the newsstand at the stationThere it was, a publicationWith a bold prevaricationWhere it asked “Was Darwin Wrong?”Darwin stands among the giantsOf our modern view of scienceSo, in answer and defianceI’m replying in this song: Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin, take …
Oct 19 2011
Cos it’s coming up on that time of the semester. Another one for my students. The non-religious viewpoint—that a moral sense evolves— Raises up some thorny questions, while some others it resolves The thing about selection that can give a fellow blindsight Is that all success and failure is revealed to us in hindsight. Predicting …
Sep 26 2011
If you take a look around while you’re out walking Just to catalog the things you chance to see From the beetle at your footstep to the pigeon overhead To the bracket fungus high up in a tree You will notice the abundances of nature It’s astonishing, of course, because it’s true And the most …
Sep 21 2011
It’s a reproductive message And I’m passing it along I read it in my DNA And wrote it in this song It’s just a reproductive message A reproductive message to you It’s an imperative of nature It’s not just my excuse There is no greater calling Than “survive and reproduce” It’s an imperative of nature …
Aug 26 2011
Some say God used evolution As His “how it’s done” solution, As a way that they can reconcile the two opposing views But that reconciliation Lives in pure imagination It’s a compromise that’s simply not available to choose Middle ground, which they’re demanding Shows a lack of understanding Intervention means the process wasn’t natural at …
Feb 11 2009
On the newsstand at the stationThere it was, a publicationWith a bold prevaricationWhere it asked “Was Darwin Wrong?”Darwin stands among the giantsOf our modern view of scienceSo, in answer and defianceI’m replying in this song: Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin, take a look around today—You might recognize the path we took, cos you showed us the …
May 06 2008
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the spotSome mussels have to tell the dark from light;A complex lens, this mollusk it has not—One could not claim a mussel has true sight.I have seen pigment cups for eyes in snailsBut no such eyes my beauty doth possess—To see a light’s direction, sans detailsIs not the job …
Feb 13 2008
I suppose it is inevitable, on Valentine’s Day, that we will see scores of stories of “what love is”, citing one branch of science or another, or forgoing the science to bring out the poets. It always bothers me, though, to see some neurotransmitter named as the “cause” of this or that sensation, because it …
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Apr 23 2008
A Lizard Is A Lizard Is A Lizard
evolution, Science, social commentary
by Cuttlefish
A lizard will remain a lizardEven if it grows a gizzard. Even if it grows some fur,A lizard’s what it always were; A lizard will be of that ilkDespite evolving glands for milk; A lizard with an upright stance–Could that be different? Not a chance! A lizard standing on two legs,Who bears live young instead …
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