From: rybicki@uctvax.uct.ac.za
Newsgroups: talk.origins
Subject: Re: Would you believe anyway ???
Date: 16 Nov 92 17:12:29 +0200
Organization: University of Cape Town

In article <BxJz2K.zE@brunel.ac.uk>, bm90ash@brunel.ac.uk (Adrian S Harvey) writes:
> Question : If God exists, why doesn't He come and tell us?
> 
> 
> Would we believe Him if he did ??


i FIND THIS SORT OF THING SO, SO TEDIOUS - i EXIST, YOU MAY OR MAY NOT BELIEVE
IN me AS YOU LIKE.  AS FOR me CREATING THE EARTH AND ALL ON IT BIT BY BIT,
PIECE BY PIECE - WHAT AN ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS IDEA!  i SEE i WILL HAVE TO SET
THE RECORD STRAIGHT, AGAIN....!


IN THE BEGINNING:

Was the Cosmic Bubble
And the Bubble was without form
And brightness was upon the face of the void

A few milliseconds later
Expansion had occurred
And the Universe was lumpy
As it is, lo, unto this day

And the plasma cooled, and the atoms associated
And condensation occurred, in clouds and planetesimals
And complex molecules came to be, hydrocarbons among them
Yea, and formaldehyde (HCHO) too came to be

And upon the surface of the newly-formed planets
Yea, and perhaps even in the interstellar spaces
Surface catalysis caused polymerisations
And lightning, and deepsea thermal vents
And volcanoes, and hot springs
All of these served as energy sources for the primal soup

And nucleotides came to be, and short oligoribonucleotides,
And amino acids, and lipids
Bilayers and multilayers did the lipids form
And so did they entrap primitive ribozymes
Which did replicate themselves crudely according to their
     kinds

And mutated, and made more ribozymes
And to each a different function:
     So there were the polymerases
     And the proto-ribosomes
     And the spliceosomes

And the reverse transcriptase, and eventually also the DNA,
     which was a partner to the RNA
And a better information store, though less generally useful
So it came to be that DNA usurped the role of RNA
And RNA was cast out into the proto-cytoplasm
Where it was a messenger, and an enzyme
And a helpmeet to the DNA

Though some of it escaped as viruses
Renegade genomes, beyond the cell
Into the outer darkness
Where there is wailing, and gnashing of teeth
Though where cells get teeth from
Is beyond me

And the DNA waxed fruitful
And it multiplied bounteously,according to its kinds
And it made new kinds, by Evolution
As the polymerases were not so accurate yet

And Urkaryote became Eubacteria and Archaea and Eukarya
And the Archaea and Eubacteria did excise all or most of
     their introns
And stayed small
While Eukarya kept theirs, and grew

And the kinds did multiply all over the face of the planet
And maybe also on other planets
And did change the face of it, and the air above the ground
To an oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere they did change it
By photosynthesis, mainly
And this did allow more energetic metabolic processes to
     occur
Which allowed more complex organisms

Which meant that, after three billenia
Animals could come to be
And it was so

And although large bolides did rain down upon the Earth
Yea, and comets
So as to cause ice ages and mass extinctions
So did the DNA keep multiplying and evolving
To make ever more complex organisms did it evolve

Until it came to pass
That apes did come down from the trees
In the dry Pleistocene did the apes walk
And swim, perhaps, also
If one is to believe Elaine Morgan
In "The Descent of Woman"
But I digress

And they evolved to fit the new niche
Larger brains did they acquire
And upright carriage
And other problems

And lo, they did search for Meaning
And Truth
And Food and Sex also
And they did become confused, so they invented religion
To explain that which happened
And it came to govern them, so that they were not free to
     think
Which is the cause of the population problem
And their reluctance to take their clothes off

But Mother Gaia will fix it, eventually....!                                  



- GOD


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