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Posted By: Susan of DT
16-Sep-06 - 11:28 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Turning Back the Pages (R. A. Edmondson)
Subject: Lyr Add: TURNING BACK THE PAGES (R. A. Edmondson)
Here is a song I heard at Fylde last month in response to some of the school board idiocies lately in the US.
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TURNING BACK THE PAGES
(Robert. A. Edmondson)

We are turning back the pages in the U S A
The Age of Unenlightenment is where we want to stay
Now the teachers in our schools may not corrupt our youth
The Biblical Old Testament contains the only truth
That creatures all were made at once six thousand years ago
The mammoth and the squirrel, the dinosaur and doe
As well as all the insect, the scorpions and spiders
The algae and bacteria and things that live inside us.

Cho:        We are turning back the pages to the medieval ages
        To count the angels on a pin,
        Say Darwin has the Devil's grin.
        To study fossils is a sin
        We are turning back the pages

We are turning back the pages in the U S A
We know mankind and trilobites appeared within a day
The grasses and the mushrooms, the ferns and every flower
Appeared together on this earth within the selfsame hour
There was no evolution from the small plants to the large
The mass of so-called evidence is under Satan's charge
If lecturers do not tell students this is what occurred
We will have them all arrested – heresy's the word.

We are turning back the pages in the U S A
Unbelievers and the skeptics will no longer get their way
We will close town all the colleges that do not share our views
And finding of new fossils will not be in the news
But why stop there, we ask ourselves, when we should aim much higher
All books on evolution should be on the funeral pyre
We ought to raid the libraries, your private homes and schools
Because these works of Satan should not be read by fools.

        In spite of scientist's rages
        By slow and steady stages cho…sin
        Throw Richard Dawkins in the bin
        We are turning back the pages
        We are turning back the pages

Copyright Robert A. Edmondson
@science @political @evolution
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By the way, I saw an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education the other week that mentioned that the latest list of subjects approved for study eligible for federal funds was missing a subject that had previously been on the list - Evolutionary Biology. The administration insisted that was an accident and it really was still approved and on the list.