Darwin first did the imminent service of arousing attention to the
Probability of all change in organic, as well as in the inorganic world,
Being the result of law, and not of miraculous interposition
For all life is a continuum. All living things despite their awesome diversity
Are related to each other. And evolution is the term we give to that
Process, by which the structure of plants and animals changes with the
Passage of time thus accounting for the continuum

I was staring through the blackboard trying to keep from sleeping,
Doing my very best to hear the subject they were teaching.
When to my surprise, I couldn't my believe my ears,
This is what you looked like back a million years
Your uncle was a monkey, he was swinging through the trees,
He lived on green bananas, and his arms swung to his knees
He spoke with such conviction, it really made me think,
Maybe my teacher, He's the missing link!
He said...

I believe in evolution,
Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies.
It's the only possible solution,
Big Bang fiction, that we factualize

Therefore Crow Magnum Man!
It takes a lot of faith to say we're accidents of nature,
But I believe we are the work of a loving creator
Now you can wait a million years and hope that nature does it's part,
But it only takes a moment, for God to change a heart
That's why...

I believe in evolution,
Changing of the heart, renewing of the mind.
It's the only true solution,
God is always working, changing lives (changing lives),
It's evolution redefined

I used to trust in natural selection,
My survival was all I could see.
My evolving to perfection,
Started when God rescued me

I believe in evolution,
Changing of the heart, renewing of the mind.
It's the only true solution, God is always working,
Changing lives.
I believe in evolution,
Changing of the heart, renewing of the mind
It's the only true solution,
It's evolution redefined
I believe in evolution,
Changing of the heart, renewing of the mind
It's the only true solution, God is always working,
Changing lives.

I believe believe in evolution,
Changing of the heart, renewing of the mind,
It's the only true solution, It's evolution redefined


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    I remember liking this song back in the day, when I was caught up in the world of evangelical Christianity. Embarrassed to admit that today!

    "All living things despite their awesome diversity / Are related to each other."

    This line was spoken by the teacher, in a very mocking kind of voice, like the teacher is completely clueless. In actuality, it's one of the only truths said in this song.

    "I believe in evolution, Ask me no questions, I'll tell you no lies. It's the only possible solution, Big Bang fiction, that we factualize"

    As usual, anti-science Christians don't see the irony in thinking that it's science that says "ask me no questions", when it's religion that does that. Try putting your hand up during a Sunday sermon to say to the preacher, "I have a problem with that".

    Religious people continually say how nothing can possibly exist without being created ("Big Bang fiction"). Well then, that would also apply to God.

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