Friday 12 April 2013

The folly of denial - creationism, climate change & HIV-AIDS


I had a chat today with a creationist
I tried to get away but he wouldn't desist
I said listen here mate I'm a biologist
I haven't got time for you chatting rubbish.

Do I believe in evolution?
I said no I don't it's the truth son.
You're under a massive illusion,
If you look at the evidence it's proven.

I suggested he look at phylogenetics
But all he did was brand me a heretic.
I thought I'd try a different tack
So I went on a full frontal fossil attack.

But he said that these were proof of Noah's flood
When dinosaurs were buried in the mud.
I pointed out sedimentation patterns
But in the eyes of God facts don't matter.

I haven't got time for people like these,
Creationist ideas are like a disease.
And if pigs can fly, then so might I
But there sure as hell ain't a God up high.

If there are three things
That have ever been proven
They're HIV-AIDS, climate change and evolution.

On Twitter one day I tried to have a debate
But try as I might I just couldn't relate.
Engaging deniers is always a mistake,
They never listen to the facts that you state.

Do I believe in global warming?
What's to believe, the ice caps are thawing.
But humans surely can't be to blame
Despite the mass pollution to our name.

I tried to reason but what a toil,
I said renewables are cleaner than oil.
But one was adamant wind is dirty
I said maybe from your arse but not from a turbine.

But then came the biggest joke of them all,
One of them said our reserves would never fall.
They're called fossil fuels for a reason
And surely it's cleaner to be greener.

I haven't got time for people like these,
Climate change deniers are like a disease.
And if pigs could fly, then so might I
But there sure as hell ain't a God up high.

If there are three things
That have ever been proven,
They're HIV-AIDS, climate change and evolution.

The last of the bunch are a proper disgrace
They contest that HIV doesn't lead to AIDS.
They flock together in their thousands,
In denial of the facts that abound them.

There's a case of a mother who should have faced a trial,
Denied her disease and passed it onto her child.
Young Eliza-Jane was only three when she died,
She caught pneumonia and couldn't be revived.

Her mother died of the same disease,
Caused by the AIDS that she woulnd't treat.
In spite of the facts that were present,
Christine Maggorie would not repent.

In the 21st Century it truly baffles me,
A subset of people are unable to see
That science prises fact from fiction,
We should be long past baseless contradiction.

I haven't got time for people like these,
HIV deniers are like a disease.
And if pigs could fly, then so might I
But there sure as hell ain't a God up high.

If there are three things
That have ever been proven,
They're HIV-AIDS, climate change and evolution.