The Intelligent Designer

THE INTELLIGENT DESIGNER
Irving Rothchild

   Is it female or mate? Does it have any sex?
   Does it come with a name. like Jane. Irving, or Rex?
   What We need is a super-intelligent definer
   To define this uncanny Intelligent Designer!

   Has it got any features? Does it have any limbs?
   Is it made of dark matter or two-dimensional films?
   Among all the world's gods, is it major or minor?
   This amorphous, intangible Intelligent Designer!

   Does it live on a planet, a star, or a comet?
   Inside a black hole or far. far away from it?
   Can it ride on a light beam or something diviner'?
   This incongruous, elusive Intelligent Designer!

   Would a galactic ensemble fit most of it in.
   Or is it as small as the head of a pin.
   Or perhaps in between, like a grand ocean liner?
   This mysterious, pretentious Intelligent Designer!

   Does it get a big charge out of making malaria
   Cholera. AIDS. or a cook who's a carrier
   Of typhoid or worms who love to live in your spine or
   Your belly? this heartless Intelligent Designer!

   Did the brain carcinoma (what's more unbenigner?)
   Come out of the shop of the Intelligent Designer?
   Does the tse-tse fly sing a clear thankful hosanna
   To the ID every, time it makes someone a goner?

   Does it have any purpose except to confuse
   Bible myths of creation with what scientists use
   To learn how designs in nature are made?
   This Intelligent Designer--a pointless charade!

Irving Rothchild is Emeritus Professor of Reproductive Biology. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland. Ohio.

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