Back in 1859 Charles Darwin had a dream that evolved into a theory. Almost 160 years on it’s still ever popular, even though Charlie warned that it should not be considered fact, until fossil evidence of intermediary species was found, correctly deducing that there should be countless millions of such fossils.
That’s just about all he got right. Nevertheless today his fantasy is in biology text books and being taught to children as fact. For some reason, it’s important to teach our kids that the 80 million living species on this planet, including humans, come from amino acids and carbon rocks way down below the ocean. Apparently it’s beneficial to their development to believe this.
That’s why for many decades the Coelacanth was touted as a species that was readying itself to walk out of the ocean and start running The Two Ocean’s Marathon. Then a live one turned-up off the coast of East London.
It was swiftly dubbed the first “living fossil”, but tests proved that the live specimen was identical to the 300 million year-old “transitional fossils” they had been proudly displaying. To add insult to injury, it was later discovered that far from being extinct for 80-million years, the Coelacanth was, in fact, a very much alive and thriving species in the waters off the Comoro Islands and a delicacy amongst locals. I hear they make lovely fishcakes.
To be fair to Charlie, his theory was based on what he called the Primordial Pond, which got struck by lightning, causing the chemicals in the water to spark into life. For many decades scientists rallied around this theory calling it abiogenesis, but Louis Pasteur, the father of medicine’s biogenesis experiments, still stand as proof that inorganic chemicals cannot become living organisms.
So after striking-out with that theory, they changed the story to hydro-thermal vaults, containing carbon, many fathoms below the ocean. Sounds impressive doesn’t it? It’s not when you fathom it out. Here’s why – carbon can only come from previously living matter, which means that something must have lived and died to create it. That’s why they call oil “fossil fuels”. That’s right – when you fill your tank up, you are driving on high-octane, diluted Dinosaur juice and you can thank God those bastards are safely buried thousands of metres below the desert sands and ocean floor.
How they got there is anybody’s guess, but evidently some of them must have been able to fly, to avoid the catastrophe that buried their mates alive. That’s how we know that birds were dinosaurs before – yes, even your pet budgie, Charlie, is a descendant of Tyrannosaurus Rex. That’s what evolutionary pundits claim to be fact. Sounds a bit fact-up to me.
So let me get this story straight – the Amazon Jungle came from algae? Killer whales used to be jellyfish? Man used to be a molecule? Amoebas turned into insects and animals? I must buy this theory because some ponce in a white coat with a science degree reckons so?
I’ve met many people with degrees and have invariably found most of them to be varying degrees of bungling, befuddled idiots. That’s not my theory – that’s my experienced fact. Sure they may be geniuses in their field, but many of them are clueless outside of it. In fact take a scientist outside and toss a cricket ball to him – I’m willing to bet it will hit him right on the noggin, ten times in a row. Ask one of them to change a wheel and see how many weeks it takes him.
It’s intellectual autism. I think I must write a paper on it and gain some overdue recognition for my intellectual terrorism.
But, my major beef with the evolution story is why pigs, our closest biological relative, have been omitted from their rock-to-molecule-to-ape-to-man theory? Why? Obviously it wouldn’t be Kosher to tell people that they are made of pork.
Most of all, I’m disappointed that pigs didn’t evolve wings. Call me an ignorant swine, who doesn’t understand evolution, but flying pigs would make life far more interesting. Never mind a dove swooping and pooping in your eye, or a pigeon dropping a wet one on your chicken mayo sandwich, just as you are about to take your first bite.
Imagine a sunny day on Clifton beach, with pigs swirling around above the ape-descended, frat-boy ignoramuses strutting their stuff below and a hurtling, sloppy projectile, splattering all over their Raybans.
Somehow, I think that either God or evolution failed us here, but I won’t give up on my attempts to mate my pet ostrich with my pet pig.
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