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The Beatles, 'I Am the Walrus' - Top 10 Songs with Silly Lyrics - TIME. John Lennon claims to have written the first two lines of “I Am the Walrus” on separate acid trips. But in comparison to some of the song’s later lyrics, the first two lines (“I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together/ See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly”) are hardly the most bizarre, as Lennon goes on to sing about everything from “sitting on a cornflake” to getting a tan “from the English rain.” “I Am the Walrus” is perhaps most famous for its completely random chorus: “I am the eggman/ They are the eggmen/ I am the Walrus/ Coo coo ca-choo.”

Um, what? After Lennon’s death, conspiracy theorists made wild claims about the song’s supposed secret messages. Next ‘Whenever, Wherever’ Evil Bible Home Page. God is Imaginary - 50 simple proofs. 112-fatherly-love. SAB, Absurdities. Absurdity -All: Genesis - Revelation -Genesis - Deuteronomy -Joshua - 2 Chronicles -Ezra - Isaiah -Jeremiah - Daniel -Hosea - Micah -Nahum - Malachi -Matthew - John -Acts - Ephesians -Colossians - Hebrews -James - Revelation About the Absurdities Dwindling in Unbelief: Absurdity.

The Improbability of God. The Improbability of God by Richard Dawkins from Free Inquiry, Volume 18, Number 3. Much of what people do is done in the name of God. Irishmen blow each other up in his name. Arabs blow themselves up in his name. Imams and ayatollahs oppress women in his name. Celibate popes and priests mess up people's sex lives in his name. Jewish shohets cut live animals' throats in his name. Why do people believe in God? So ran Paley's argument, and it is an argument that nearly all thoughtful and sensitive people discover for themselves at some stage in their childhood. What do all objects that look as if they must have had a designer have in common?

This is not a circular argument, by the way. Of all the trillions of different ways of putting together the atoms of a telescope, only a minority would actually work in some useful way. We can safely conclude that living bodies are billions of times too complicated -- too statistically improbable -- to have come into being by sheer chance.