========== Memo to: The members of the Kansas Board of Education
From: God
Re: Your decision to eliminate the teaching of evolution as science.
Thank you for your support. Much obliged. Now, go forth and multiply.
Beget many children. And yea, your children shall beget children. And
their children shall beget children, and their children's children after
them. And in time the genes that have made you such pinheads will be
eliminated through natural selection. Because that is how it works.
Listen, I love all my creatures equally, and gave each his own special
qualities to help him on Earth. The horse I gave great strength. The
antelope I gave great grace and speed. The dung beetle I gave great
stupidity, so he doesn't realize he is a dung beetle. Man I gave a
brain. Use it, okay?
I admit I am not perfect. I've made errors. (Armpit hair-what was I
thinking?) But do you Kansans seriously believe that I dropped
half-a-billion-year-old trilobite skeletons all over my great green
Earth by mistake? What, I had a few lying around some previous creation
in the Andromeda galaxy, and they fell through a hole in my pocket?
You were supposed to find them. And once you found them, you were
supposed to draw the appropriate, intelligent conclusions. That's what I
made you for. To think.
The folks who wrote the Bible were smart and good people. Mostly, they
got it right. But there were glitches. Imprecisions. For one thing, they
said that Adam and Eve begat Cain and Abel, and then Cain begat Enoch.
How was that supposed to have happened? They left out Tiffany entirely!
Well, they also were a little off on certain elements of timing and
sequence. So what? You guys were supposed to figure it all out for
yourselves, anyway. When you stumble over the truth, you are not
supposed to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and proceed on as though
nothing had happened. If you find a dinosaur's toe, you're not supposed
to look for reasons to call it a croissant. You're not big, drooling
idiots. For that, I made dogs.
Why do you think there are no fossilized human toes dating from a
hundred million years ago? Think about it. It's okay if you think. In
fact, I prefer it. That's why I like Charlie Darwin. He was always a
thinker. Still is. He and I chat frequently.
I know a lot of people figure that if man evolved from other organisms,
it means I don't exist. I have to admit this is a reasonable assumption
and a valid line of thought. I am in favor of thought. I encourage you
to pursue this concept with an open mind, and see where it leads you.
That's all I have to say right now, except that I'm really cheesed off
at laugh tracks on sitcoms, and people who make simple declarative
sentences sound like questions?
Oh, wait. There's one more thing.
Did you read in the newspapers yesterday how scientists in Australia
dug up some rocks and found fossilized remains of life dating back
further than ever before? Primitive, multi-celled animals on Earth
nearly three billion years ago, when the planet was nothing but roiling
muck and ice and fire. And inside those cells was ... DNA. Incredibly
complex strands of chemicals, laced together in a scheme so
sophisticated no one yet understands exactly how it works. I wonder who
could have thought of something like that, back then.
Just something to gnaw on.