Baba Brinkman - Natural Selection 2.0 lyrics
[Baba Brinkman - Natural Selection 2.0 lyrics]
"Whoever is lead to believe
That species are mutable
Will do good service by
Conscientiously expressing his
Conviction, for only thus can the load of
Prejudice by which this
Subject is overwhelmed, be removed"
Charles Darwin, Origin of Species
So what-ch you know about
Natural Selection? Go ahead
And ask a question and see
Where the answer gets you
Try bein’ passive aggressive or
Try smashin’ heads in
And see which tactic brings
Your plans to fruition
And if you have an explanation in mind
Then you’re wastin’ your time
‘cause the best watchmaker is blind
It takes a certain base
Kind of impatient mind
To explain away nature
With "intelligent design"
But the truth shall set you free
From those useless superstitious beliefs
In a literal Adam and Eve
And that Edenic myth
‘Cause their family tree is
Showin’ some genetic drift
Take it from this bald
Headed non-celibate monk
With the lyrical equivalent of
An elephant’s trunk
It’s time to elevate your mind-state
And celebrate your kinship with the primates
The weak and the strong, who got it goin’ on?
We lived in the dark for so long
The weak and the strong
Darwin got it goin’ on
Creationism is dead wrong
"The view which most
Naturalists entertain…namely that
Each species has been independently created
Is erroneous"
Charles Darwin, Origin of Species
Okay, it’s time to reveal my identity
I’m the manifestation of tens of millions
Of centuries of sexual selection
Best believe i’m the best of the best of
The best of the best
Of generations of competitive
Pressure genetically but don’t get upset
‘cause we’ve got the same pedigree
You and I will find
A common ancestor eventually
If we rewind geological time regressively
And I could say the same
For this hibiscus tree
And this lizard and this flea
And this sesame seed
And if you still disbelieve in
What your senses perceive
Then I could even use this rhyme as a remedy
‘Cause there’s so much variation in
The styles in this industry
And differential survival when
The people listening
Decide what they’re into and
What really isn’t interesting
You could thrive like Timberlake
On a Timberland beat
Or go extinct like Vanilla Ice and N’Sync
It’s survival of the fittest
But fitness is a tricky thing
It changes from place to place
And from winter to spring
But the real question in
This social-scientific simile is heredity
Whether we inherit our techniques
From our predecessors
Or invent them independently
But then we’re talkin’ memes and
That’s a different thing
Richard Dawkins can I get a proper definition please,?
The weak and the strong, who got it goin’ on?
We lived in the dark for so long
The weak and the strong
Darwin got it goin’ on
Creationism is dead wrong
The weak and the strong, who got it goin’ on?
Whoever leaves the most spawn
The weak and the strong
Darwin got it goin’ on
Creationism is… erroneous
I hear some people complain
Like "I don’t wanna be an ape!
I never came from monkey DNA!
I believe God made me in
A day – Jesus saves!"
Or maybe God uses evolution when He creates?!
Either way, nothing as advanced
And beautiful and intricate as
The cosmic dance
Of evolution could possibly happen by chance
We must’ve descended from quadrupeds
Because of God’s plans!
Stop that – Darwin’s actual theory is
Not chance
And if you think it is you’re delirious
In the non random survival of random variants
Over time
Chance is insufficient but necessary
So intelligent design is impossible
Unless that intelligence is a
Product of the whole
Such as your own – there’s no God in control
If higher complexity always evolves from low
So let it go! We came from the war of nature
From struggles among fighters, feeders
And fornicators and we’re nothing but
Genetic storage containers
And so what? Fuck it
I’m done with you Darwin haters
The weak and the strong, who got it goin’ on
We lived in the dark for so long
The weak and the strong
Darwin got it goin’ on
Creationism is dead wrong
The weak and the strong, who got it goin’ on?
Whoever leaves the most spawn
The weak and the strong
Darwin got it goin’ on
Creationism is dead wrong
That species are mutable
Will do good service by
Conscientiously expressing his
Conviction, for only thus can the load of
Prejudice by which this
Subject is overwhelmed, be removed"
Charles Darwin, Origin of Species
So what-ch you know about
Natural Selection? Go ahead
And ask a question and see
Where the answer gets you
Try bein’ passive aggressive or
Try smashin’ heads in
And see which tactic brings
Your plans to fruition
And if you have an explanation in mind
Then you’re wastin’ your time
‘cause the best watchmaker is blind
It takes a certain base
Kind of impatient mind
To explain away nature
With "intelligent design"
But the truth shall set you free
From those useless superstitious beliefs
In a literal Adam and Eve
And that Edenic myth
‘Cause their family tree is
Showin’ some genetic drift
Take it from this bald
Headed non-celibate monk
With the lyrical equivalent of
An elephant’s trunk
It’s time to elevate your mind-state
And celebrate your kinship with the primates
The weak and the strong, who got it goin’ on?
We lived in the dark for so long
The weak and the strong
Darwin got it goin’ on
Creationism is dead wrong
"The view which most
Naturalists entertain…namely that
Each species has been independently created
Is erroneous"
Charles Darwin, Origin of Species
Okay, it’s time to reveal my identity
I’m the manifestation of tens of millions
Of centuries of sexual selection
Best believe i’m the best of the best of
The best of the best
Of generations of competitive
Pressure genetically but don’t get upset
‘cause we’ve got the same pedigree
You and I will find
A common ancestor eventually
If we rewind geological time regressively
And I could say the same
For this hibiscus tree
And this lizard and this flea
And this sesame seed
And if you still disbelieve in
What your senses perceive
Then I could even use this rhyme as a remedy
‘Cause there’s so much variation in
The styles in this industry
And differential survival when
The people listening
Decide what they’re into and
What really isn’t interesting
You could thrive like Timberlake
On a Timberland beat
Or go extinct like Vanilla Ice and N’Sync
It’s survival of the fittest
But fitness is a tricky thing
It changes from place to place
And from winter to spring
But the real question in
This social-scientific simile is heredity
Whether we inherit our techniques
From our predecessors
Or invent them independently
But then we’re talkin’ memes and
That’s a different thing
Richard Dawkins can I get a proper definition please,?
The weak and the strong, who got it goin’ on?
We lived in the dark for so long
The weak and the strong
Darwin got it goin’ on
Creationism is dead wrong
The weak and the strong, who got it goin’ on?
Whoever leaves the most spawn
The weak and the strong
Darwin got it goin’ on
Creationism is… erroneous
I hear some people complain
Like "I don’t wanna be an ape!
I never came from monkey DNA!
I believe God made me in
A day – Jesus saves!"
Or maybe God uses evolution when He creates?!
Either way, nothing as advanced
And beautiful and intricate as
The cosmic dance
Of evolution could possibly happen by chance
We must’ve descended from quadrupeds
Because of God’s plans!
Stop that – Darwin’s actual theory is
Not chance
And if you think it is you’re delirious
In the non random survival of random variants
Over time
Chance is insufficient but necessary
So intelligent design is impossible
Unless that intelligence is a
Product of the whole
Such as your own – there’s no God in control
If higher complexity always evolves from low
So let it go! We came from the war of nature
From struggles among fighters, feeders
And fornicators and we’re nothing but
Genetic storage containers
And so what? Fuck it
I’m done with you Darwin haters
The weak and the strong, who got it goin’ on
We lived in the dark for so long
The weak and the strong
Darwin got it goin’ on
Creationism is dead wrong
The weak and the strong, who got it goin’ on?
Whoever leaves the most spawn
The weak and the strong
Darwin got it goin’ on
Creationism is dead wrong