Evolution Versus Religion (78)

Evolution Versus Religion (78)

Round One

Natural selection

What a wicked way to be

We are slaves to competition

Generating misery

We can sell off social housing

We can trash the forests green

Since Richard Dawkins taught us

To support the selfish gene

Round Two

Never mind about the rivers

Or the health of oceans now

Or that naughty word, pollution

That is spreading fast somehow

We are slaves to competition

We are designed to be mean

Since a biologist has decided

God is probably a selfish gene

Chorus

Capitalism is our system

Competition our mindset

When the steed is evolution

Please meet Darwin’s little pet

What a pity it is losing

Oh my God, please return

Now that ruthless competition

Is giving cause for great concern

Round Three

Natural selection

Is the term that experts use

Now that God is dead and buried

Leaving scientists to wear his shoes

As the slaves of competition

There is little choice in this

Selfishness is our religion

Nurtured by big business

Round Four

Never mind about the rivers

Or the Shrinking forests green

Just remember Herbert Spencer

Who helped create the selfish gene

There may well be contradictions

What a monster we have reared

Otherwise called the corporates

That replace God with a beard

Chorus

Capitalism is our system

Competition our mindset

When the steed is evolution

Please meet Darwin’s little pet

What a pity it is losing

Oh my God, please return

Now that ruthless competition

Is giving cause for great concern

The End

© Frankie Espirit