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16 Sep 06 - 11:28 AM (#1836004) Subject: Lyr Add: TURNING BACK THE PAGES (R. A. Edmondson) From: Susan of DT Here is a song I heard at Fylde last month in response to some of the school board idiocies lately in the US. ^^ 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 filename[ TURNBACK 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. |
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16 Sep 06 - 11:34 AM (#1836007) Subject: RE: Evolution Song From: GUEST,oldhippie Has anybody recorded this song? |
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16 Sep 06 - 02:25 PM (#1836099) Subject: RE: Evolution Song From: Q (Frank Staplin) Nothing found on Google. Tried to find a likely composer of the poem. There is a specialist in pulmonary medicine and a flight test project manager at NASA who are possibilities. |
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16 Sep 06 - 03:16 PM (#1836140) Subject: RE: Evolution Song From: dick greenhaus 'Twas a floor singr at Fylde. |
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16 Sep 06 - 08:30 PM (#1836343) Subject: RE: Evolution Song From: yrlancslad I heard a chap who was probably the same fellow sing the song from the floor at a session at the Fylde Folk Festival a couple of years ago and he was definately a Brit, didn't sound like a northerner though as I remember. I got the impression he'd written it. |
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16 Sep 06 - 08:59 PM (#1836351) Subject: RE: Evolution Song From: BuckMulligan Chris Smither also has a track on his new CD (Leave The Light On) which I believe is called "Intelligent Design" - heard it live a few months ago at the Stone Church in Newmarket (NH) and it's a hoot. |
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16 Sep 06 - 09:05 PM (#1836358) Subject: RE: Evolution Song From: Joe_F thread.cfm?threadid=75630#1330627 |
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16 Sep 06 - 09:50 PM (#1836378) Subject: RE: Evolution Song From: robomatic Wunderbar! I'd love to learn this song if there is any kind of recording of it! |
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17 Sep 06 - 09:20 PM (#1837027) Subject: RE: Evolution Song From: Joe_F http://www.echoschildren.org/Songs/WordofGodtune.html |
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17 Sep 06 - 10:14 PM (#1837060) Subject: RE: Evolution Song From: Susan of DT We got the music from the author. Dick is transcribing it and will probably post it when he gets it in shape to post. |
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17 Sep 06 - 10:52 PM (#1837086) Subject: RE: Evolution Song From: GUEST,DrWord brilliant. wise&witty! THANK YOU 4 THIS POST!!! ONCE AGAIN, MUDCAT MAKES MY DAY smiles dennis Oak in the Acorn |