The Dark Side of Evolution: Nature's Sweet Lies - Conceit and Deceit

 The Dark Side of Evolution

Nature's Sweet Lies - Conceit and Deceit

Dr Abe V Rotor

Biology Professor, UST, DLSU

Plant with moth-like leaves - shape, color, venation, and

colony arrangement. Manressa Retreat House, QC

A pair of moth resembling leaves in autumn, normal

and closeup view. St Paul University, QC

Among the foliage in a forest I am but a leaf,

Green in spring and summer, golden in autumn.

Brown with the earth where I shall fall;

And there I rest through time unknown.

Then shall rise another, like the leaf that I was,

Or another kind faithful to the cycle of nature

Or a bold seeker of freedom, a sinner

Driven from the Garden of its birth.

Away from its origin and ancestors,

Now armed with Darwinian fashion, earned

Through time and trial, of victory and defeat

To survive outside the confines of rules -

And faith, from boredom and prosaic beauty.

In disobedience through deceit and conceit

Flies among the stars with its kind 'til dawn,

To a new world, but find the same old game.~