Or more precisely, “God has an inordinate fondness for stars and beetles.” That is the supposed answer of J.B.S. Haldane, the British evolutionary biologist, to the theological question, “What could be concluded about the Creator from the study of creation?”
S/He had a special place for beetles, if S/He created more than 400,000 species of beetles.
O Beetle God, O Beetle God,
We worship, though it may seem odd
To worldly wonks that thy area
Shouldst be the Coleoptera.
O Beetle horde, O Beetle horde,
Your many ways will show the Lord’s
Dedication that there be
Selection for diversity.
O coleopterist divine,
Search woods and fields that you may find
The many lives of bough and pond
Of which God’s inordinately fond.
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