I never understood that song (By Tool).. shouldn't it be 44 + 2?
I just read something that said it's based on the teachings of some moron named Drunvalo Melchizadek who thought that we were just a stepping stone between 44 chromosomes and the obviously superior 48 chromosomes (46 + 2 sex chromosomes). Something about how consciousness and sentience is tied into karyotype.
Yeah, too bad chromosome count has precisely dick to do with how "advanced" you are as a species. Large apes have 48 chromosomes and we lock them up in cages and poke them with sticks. Woops! I guess having more DNA (most of which is inactive anyway) doesn't make your species "more advanced," even from a Darwinian "he who ****s the most, wins" perspective (humans outnumber apes maybe 100:1).
Like many, many (many) Tool songs, this is about how religion is "wrong." Thanks guys, I'm sure evolution needed your ill-informed hackneyed lyrics to defend it against the ever-so dangerous Theory of Creationism.
I'm trying to figure out how creationism is supposed to be the keystone to theism in the first place. Do they really think that disproving an unrelated theory about genealogy is going to be a death blow to the beliefs of 90+% of the human race?
"What? Humanity didn't arise from a spontaneously spawned, gullible couple in some magic garden? Well this changes EVERYTHING!!"
The real tragedy is, they named themselves "Tool," which is pretty self-deprecating. It's fairly ineffective to call someone a douche when they're already calling themselves tool. (67,810)
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