Evolution

Creationism Revisited: An Evolutionary Poem--by Dick Hays, a prominent MDIBL scientist. I found this poem lying around somebody's lab and thought it appropriate as it is impossible to spend time studying kidneys from sharks, zebrafish, mice, and humans without at least thinking about the theory of evolution. Here we go:

There's an evolution engine that really is quite nice
It turns gooses into mooses, and guppies into mice
You take hoxes (in their boxes), and give the things a shake
And, in Adam's lovely garden, an apple is a snake!
Thus, over the millenia, with evolution's push
A lizard is a hummingbird, and Jefferson a Bush
But in this random process, things needn't get much worse
Remember that the engine can swing into reverse
So think, dear friends a moment of what you'd like to be
A fruit fly or a coelocanth, or something in a tree
Perchance a pterodactyl in flight above the bay
With all this in the offing, let's savor every day!