Evolution
Train - Lyrics
Bodi-wan
Copyright
2003-2021 Bodi-wan/David Hodge
[Editorial comments: The idea of biological evolution is an ancient Epicurean belief that was revived by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Erasmus Darwin. It was further modified by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace. Charles Darwin, Erasmus' grandson, used Ed Blyth's ideas of natural selection (although they were not called "natural selection" until Darwin) to propose that that was the mechanism for evolution's onward and upward movement to complex information to develop things like a circulatory system, nervous system, hair, lungs, brain, and so on.
But we don't observe evolutionary changes. Instead the changes we observe in biological systems (e.g., mutations and natural selection) are moving in the opposite direction of evolutionists' propositions. We observe losses of information, copies and filtering of existing information but not new functional information generation that previously didn't exist.
Biological evolution is one portion of an evolutionary worldview (along with cosmological evolution [big bang et al], geological evolution [millions of years] and chemical evolution [origin of life]). Together, they make up the origins account of the secular forms of humanism which is the religion that dominates much of the Western World today and is taught in most state schools.
So like a train that is going the wrong way on the tracks, so are the supposed evolutionary changes and that is what this song is about. For those who don't know, two major corporations, Enron and WorldCom, did this sort of thing with their accounting; they were adding losses as though they were legitimate gains and naturally, these scandals caused them to go bankrupt.]
Chorus
The
evolution train’s a coming but it’s going in the wrong direction
The
evolution train’s a coming but it just can’t get you where you want to
Where you going?
You
just can’t build it up!
The
information’s falling.
And
you just don’t want to give it up!
V1
Selection
doesn’t build up information but only selects what’s already there
It
filters out and loses information – this isn’t evolution at all
Selection
was developed by Ed Blyth to explain variation in kinds
Darwin took it one step
further but we don’t observe life changing kinds
Chorus
The
evolution train’s a coming but it’s going in the wrong direction
The
evolution train’s a coming but it just can’t get you where you want to
Where you going?
You
just can’t build it up!
The
information’s falling.
And
you just don’t want to give it up!
V2
Mutations
can’t build sufficient information; they are defects in the genome
How
can these be information gaining; when their additions are like Enron
Tumors
like cancer are mutations; do you think these are so great?
If
mutations are evolution’s hero; then evolution is a tumor of hate…
Bridge:
The evolution train has derailed
It went the wrong way on the track
The creation train went barreling through it
Now let’s help people get back on
track
V3
Compilation verse
Selection
doesn’t build up information but only selects what’s already there
It
filters out and loses information – this isn’t evolution at all
Mutations
can’t build sufficient information; they are defects in the genome
How
can these be information gaining; when their additions are like Enron
Outro line
Hey
man where you goin’? Hey that’s the wrong way.
