The Sound of Science

Hello Darwin my old friend,
I’ve come to read from you again.
You comfort me when I grow weary
of people saying “it’s just a theory”.
Because a theory is a system of abstractions in our finite minds
of laws behind
the things we find
with science.

And on the internet I saw
a billion people maybe more.
People clinging to old illusions,
people jumping to conclusions,
people holding superstitions that are obviously quite absurd,
but never heard
a single word
of science.

How do you think the doctor knows
how a disease like cancer grows?
How did we learn how we might treat it,
how do you think one day we might beat it?
Cause it won't be by taking sugar pills or standing on one leg for hours
while eating flowers,
but through the powers
of science.

If you have answers and you're sure
they're better than what came before,
make your hypothesis and test it,
take the results that you've collected,
and then you write them in a paper and submit it for a peer review.
It's what we do
to check it's true
in science.

And the people stood and prayed.
They said "our faith cannot be swayed".
They have their views and they won't lose them,
they have their truths and they won't prove them.
They'll take the words of their prophets over fossils that were really found
beneath the ground.
They don't like the sound
of science.