Analog SFF, June 2008 by Dell Magazine Authors

Author:Dell Magazine Authors
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Science Fiction
Publisher: Dell Magazines
Published: 2010-12-15T07:07:17.125000+00:00

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Poem: ON THE EVOLUTION OF GOD

by Robert Lundy

All major species, through the years

That measure out their long careers

Have little concept of the flow

Of geologic time, and so

Believe their world lately started,

Can't conceive themselves departed,

Think they've lots of time to spend,

Believe their world is without end.

—

In the Cambrian explosion in all areas and spots,

Things the Earth had never seen before appeared in carload lots.

If dominating life forms show the image of Almighty God,

Their Intelligent Designer must have looked quite like an arthropod.

—

The Permian was an epoch great, the denizens of which

Were dominated by therapsids, creatures who without a stitch

Of clothing on persisted for millennia convinced that they

Resembled their top deity in each and every single way

—

The creatures that we know today from movies like Jurassic Park

Most likely were enlighteneed and enraptured by a kindred spark.

Their Voice of God was rather loud and came out sounding very roarish,

And emanated from a pair of jaws that looked Tyrannosaurish.

—

It therefore should not cause surprise and oughtnt't make a skeptic gape

To note that in the present day Almighty God's a naked ape.

Or that some think the universe's age is but six thousands years.

And that the promise of eternity will settle all our fears.

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When man or nature heeds its urges

And from this world our species purges

Then cats and mice and worms and krill

Will fight until one owns the hill,

Then dominance of Sea and Sod,

Will grant them leave to picture God.

His image slowly will come clearer

Until they're looking in the mirror.

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Extinction, then, will come along

To silence our successor's song.

For as Lord Keynes once rightly said,

“In the long term, we're all dead.”

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