She’s Got No Brain
By Jim Rogers, MD
Little machines that go
Integrated just so
Blueprint incognito
What makes it grow
Put together so fine
Personalities shine
Words of poetry rhyme
How can you know
What a wonder it is
It’s a silly thing to think we’re dumber
Than Mother Nature who’s got no brain
For evolution it’s quite the bummer
Because she can’t explain
What clearly needs a brain
Mother Nature’s got no brain
Nanotechnology
In cell biology
Professors eulogize
It’s Darwin I surmise
DNA transcription
Protein configuration
Gene translocation
Godly revelation
What a wonder it is
Are we just animals
Roaming the streets because
Some textbook said it was
What we should be
I know there’s more to life
It’s evident despite
Go see the stars at night
There in plain sight
A note about the artist:
I am a physician (MD – Univ of Minnesota 1986) trained in family medicine and practicing for the last 17 years in a small northeast MN town of Cloquet. I do teach medical students and residents and have lectured on ID at the medical school in Duluth MN (informal brown bag talks) and in Kenya’s Tenwek Hospital (a large mission hospital). I’ve been married for 23 years and have 2 teenage kids.
I’ve always had some passion for trying to understand “the big questions” in life, including origins and intelligent design, and I’m not sure how I’d make sense of life without dealing with it, creatively and proactively.
I am also a musician who tries to make interesting music in my home studio. On occasion I might succeed. “She’s Got No Brain” is an original, though I borrowed an instrumental melody from the Wizard of Oz. As I read about the Design vs Darwin debate, I’ve been repeatedly, consistently and profoundly amazed at how the finest brilliant minds in all of science seemingly have less brilliance than a mindless process called evolution. We sometimes call this process “Mother Nature” which perhaps anthropomorphizes what really does not have a brain. We shouldn’t be dumber than a mindless process…it’s a silly thing to think so. Hence my lyrics -
“It’s a silly thing to think we’re dumber – than Mother Nature who’s got no brain. For evolution it’s quite the bummer, because she can’t explain – what clearly needs a brain. Mother Nature – she’s got no brain.”
The song is musically interesting, written mostly in 5/4 and was difficult to come up with a melody initially, as it drops chromatically in half-steps chord-wise. The verse lyrics describe either ID topics (irreducible complexity and molecular machines) or more subtle aspects of life that transcend mechanistic explanations – “personalities shine, words of poetry rhyme”
Jim Rogers
Listen (.mp3 file)