[An X-ray diffraction image of Rhinovirus gingerly placed by the author on his five month old daughter's towel. Materials from: Protein Data Bank and daughter's wardrobe]
The divine architect of runny noses,
The wizard of ooze, of two stinky hoses,
You made every man woman a misfit
With appendages and stomach full of shit.
Sexy theater in a messy sewer,
Shame on you unintelligent designer!
Harris, Hitchens, PZ, Dennett and Dawkins:
May their godless fists land where your chin is.
Old man Paley walking by a heath found,
A perfectly wrought Timepiece on the ground.
Inside his skull god's bell went a'ringing,
A wonderful spell! Paley went a'singing.
Dear Mr Paley? Truth by rhetoric?
When there is good science and proper logic?
Teleology is warm and quite fuzzy
But, surely, it's for minds lazy and lousy.
Acknowledgements:
Endless supply of early morning sneezes -
Thank you very much, Rhinoviruses.[Common colds are most often caused by infection by one of the more than 100 types of rhinovirus. Due to the many different types of viruses, it is not possible to gain complete immunity to the common cold. More at Wikipedia]
Dennett, Dawkins, Hitchens and Sam Harris:
Them[Get going with their books. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. The End of Faith by Sam Harris. God is not Great by Christopher Hitchens. Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Daniel C. Dennett.] and others, also our appendix.["Its major importance would appear to be financial support of the surgical profession." -Alfred Sherwood Romer and Thomas S. Parsons. Quoted at Talkorigins page on appendix]
Lastly, the mammalian vagina:
What will we do without Pharyngula.[There's an old joke going around about poor design: what kind of designer would route the sewer pipes right through the center of the entertainment center? -PZ Myers at Pharyngula talking about mammalian vagina (his old blog page, 2005)]
-Selva, 10 May, 2008.
