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Essays

"High out on a Limb"

"I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,
         on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain.
      I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;
      I will make myself like the Most High."  -
Lucifer (Isaiah 14: 13b-14)

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      "You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." --(Genesis 3: 4,5)

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    "Faith is the substance of fossils hoped for, the evidence of links unseen." --A. Lunn

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     "Watch out for false prophets.......By their fruit you will recognize them."  --(Matthew 7:15...16a)

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"High Out on a Limb"
             
or
(Hosanna!  Banana Manna!)
                                                

What's the theory most hated?
Why, that "God has created!"
Such a grim fairy tale we dismiss!
We do only "Science" here.
So, let's make it quite clear....
We emerged...on our own...
>From "The Mist".


We can all feel the tension
'tween Divine Intervention
And Sir Darwin's true god, Holy Luck.
But the true Magic Story?
Smoke 'n' Mirrors to Glory!
Evo-Heirs from The Kingdom of Muck.


That's the Fact that we crow,
Because we're 'in the know'.
We're cocksure and we've got PhD's!
So, please stop the mewling,
'Cause in this roost we're ruling...
The Unflappably High with Degrees!


We see no indication
Of some "Special Creation".
So pipe down and perish the thought!
Your queer notion's outdated...
It's both 'square' and ill-fated...
An heretical lie come to nought.


It's as simple as that...
So stick that in your hat!
You're a fool if you don't believe!
Listen, kid,...in your youth,
We'll spoon-feed you our truth...
Just forget about "Adam and Eve".


See, that Ancestral Tree
Both for you and for me
Germinated by Magic in Time.
Please don't ask me "How?"
Just believe! And then bow....
Blessed Child of Fortuitous Slime.


DNA just "appeared"....
(Hey, I know that sounds weird...)
But we swear it without hesitation!
So out of the Goo
Stepped me and stepped you.
Accidental Placental Mutation.


Son, you can trust me !
Keep the Faith and you'll see....
Open up your Biology Book.
It's the inerrant Word
Heard by Darwin's Great Herd.
So, please, just go take a look!


There's "The Great Human Drama"...
(Oh, that microbe? Your  Mama!)
We don't monkey around with the facts!
In this Primeval Dance,
You're the Offspring of Chance...
So just "Go with the flow"....
And relax.


Mother Nature's Select,
The Swamp's Chosen Elect...
Enlightened with insight and Power!
So shout it out Loud.....
"Man, I AM, and I'm Proud!"
High-Rising in Her Evo-Tower.


So, climb higher than High!
Be your own El Shaddai...
El Elyon's got nothing on you!
So lad, "Grab it all !"...
Have no fear of "The Fall".
Man Almighty! Ascending from Goo.


It's all there in The Book.
Go ahead...Take a look!
Read Darwinian Chapter and Verse.
Evolutants! We're called!
Blessed mutants enthralled
By temptation's ripe fruit...
(And its curse).


There's no Fall from this High...
So you won't surely die.....
Go ahead now. Relax. And have fun!
Climb way up in The Tree.
Branch out and be Free!
You can be The Most High...
Number One!


From way out on this limb,
We can look down on Him
Who created the East and the West.
We're advancing Primates,
And the view from here's Great !
We're "Big Bangers" now beating our chest.


Hear the Call of Chiquita,
J. Fred Muggs and of Cheetah...
At this altar we all are now kneeling.
The New Dogma's slipped in
Past Original Sin....
Its fruit we find much more appealing.

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We're The Ascending Apes
With mouths fully agape.
Reaching up for that Humanist Manna.
And The Tree we sit in,
Is the Tree of Man's Sin.
With its fruit.... Darwin's rotten Banana.

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Father, we cannot hide
>From this thing you call "Pride".
It's man's nature now here on the earth.
Our hearts are all hardened...
Passed to us in the Garden....
Give us Grace, Lord, to seek your New Birth.

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    "In reply Jesus declared, 'I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again." - (John 3:4)

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   "I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially the extent to which it's been applied, will be one of the great jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity that it has."  --Malcomb Muggeridge

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     "See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ."  -- (Colossians 2:8)
 

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