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If flies were creationists

Category: Creationism • Humor
Posted on: June 12, 2009 11:13 AM, by PZ Myers

Of course, as everyone knows, all flies are geneticists and evolutionists, which kind of deflates the joke.

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Posted by: Bob Carroll | June 12, 2009 11:24 AM

To paraphrase Groucho: Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like shit.
Bob

Posted by: tsig | June 12, 2009 11:26 AM

What's the difference between fly creationism and babble creationism?

Posted by: Danimal | June 12, 2009 11:28 AM

That one got a laugh out of me.

Posted by: tsg | June 12, 2009 11:28 AM

What's the difference between fly creationism and babble creationism?

Flies at least admit it's a pile of shit.

Badum-dum-TSH

Thank you, thank you. I'm here all week.

Posted by: Richard Harris | June 12, 2009 11:30 AM

Maggots are created from non-living matter - it says so in an old book.

Posted by: Kel | June 12, 2009 11:31 AM

I got a bit of a giggle out of that.

Posted by: Glen Davidson | June 12, 2009 11:37 AM

And then god made maggots, and saw that they were good.

Nay, perfect.

Glen D
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Posted by: Chris Davis | June 12, 2009 11:38 AM

all flies are geneticists and evolutionists

Apart from Time Flies, of course...

Posted by: SC, OM | June 12, 2009 11:43 AM

Rupert Brooke Heaven
Fish (fly-replete, in depth of June,
Dawdling away their wat'ry noon)
Ponder deep wisdom, dark or clear,
Each secret fishy hope or fear.
Fish say, they have their Stream and Pond;
But is there anything Beyond?
This life cannot be All, they swear,
For how unpleasant, if it were!
One may not doubt that, somehow, Good
Shall come of Water and of Mud;
And, sure, the reverent eye must see
A Purpose in Liquidity.
We darkly know, by Faith we cry,
The future is not Wholly Dry.
Mud unto mud!--Death eddies near--
Not here the appointed End, not here!
But somewhere, beyond Space and Time,
Is wetter water, slimier slime!
And there (they trust) there swimmeth One
Who swam ere rivers were begun,
Immense, of fishy form and mind,
Squamous, omnipotent, and kind;
And under that Almighty Fin,
The littlest fish may enter in.
Oh! never fly conceals a hook,
Fish say, in the Eternal Brook,
But more than mundane weeds are there,
And mud, celestially fair;
Fat caterpillars drift around,
And Paradisal grubs are found;
Unfading moths, immortal flies,
And the worm that never dies.
And in that Heaven of all their wish,
There shall be no more land, say fish.

In case the formatting is screwed up, you can find it here:

http://www.english.emory.edu/LostPoets/Heaven.html

#10

Posted by: Newfie | June 12, 2009 11:48 AM

Sarah Palin knows her fruitflies.

#11

Posted by: mus | June 12, 2009 12:03 PM

@#1 Bob- To paraphrase Groucho: Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like shit.

No no no... fruit flies like a banana.

#12

Posted by: Holbach | June 12, 2009 12:25 PM

In the beginning there was shit. Then flies. Then gods. Makes sense when you think that the first predate the next two. To a fly, shit is shit, whether it is a god or otherwise.

#13

Posted by: Moggie | June 12, 2009 12:26 PM

#2:

What's the difference between fly creationism and babble creationism?

One was thought up by unpleasant creatures with tiny brains who see the world in a radically different way from us, and the other doesn't involve Ray Comfort.

#14

Posted by: Jason | June 12, 2009 12:31 PM

Awww, but PZ - the flies depicted could have any of a number of learning mutations...

#15

Posted by: Lee Daniel Crocker | June 12, 2009 12:35 PM

It's only those elitist Drosophila that believe in all that scientific stuff. Us common houseflies know the real truth when we land on it.

#16

Posted by: natural cynic | June 12, 2009 1:08 PM

Of course, as everyone knows, all flies are geneticists and evolutionists

That's true for horse flies & house flies. But, elephant flies are for creationists, since they're only occur in cartoons. So sayeth the crows.

#17

Posted by: WRMartin | June 12, 2009 1:26 PM