h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

AND THEN THERE WERE PRUNES

LET THERE BE PRUNES! LET IT BE SUNG TO THE HILLSIDES THAT THERE MUST EXIST SOMEWHERE ON THIS PLANET, A NATURAL LAXATIVE, TO RELIEVE PEOPLE OF THEIR BURNING NEED TO GO, WITHOUT THAT DISGUSTING ORANGE FLAVOR OF CERTAIN ORANGE COLORED PRODUCTS!

And so there were prunes. No body knows what strange fluke of evolution created the wonder fruit, but evolution sure does work in wonderous ways doesn't it now?

On to the real subject (prunes...please.)

WHEN DID WE GET LESS DUMB?

Evolution is a very hotly debated subject, ranking up there with abortion, immigration, and a suitable curfew. If humans were really created the way certain religions claim, then why until recently did they consider bathing a nasty habit? If humans were supposed to have been given tons of knowlege, then why were they so incredibly stupid for the longest time (and for all we know, now even)? Why do so many people disagree even though there is evidence sitting right in front of them, so close that if it were still alive, it probably would make an attempt at eating them? And why do I ask so many unanswered questions, isn't it annoying? Evolution is a gradual thing, caused by luck, chance, fate, pick an adjective. Some mutation could occur in one area a species is living in, but not in another place the same species is living in, and millions of years later they are totally unrelated.

I need some feedback on this piece before I go any further with it.... HELP! THE PRUNES HAVE STOLEN MY RIGHTLY EVOLVED KNOWLEGE AND I NEED SOME IDEAS ON HOW TO EXPAND THIS LOUSEY PIECE OF WRITING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THANK YOU ALL FOR ALL OF THIS WONDERFUL FEEDBACK, I'M SO GREATFUL FOR THE MULTITUDE OF WONDERFUL IDEAS TO HELP ME OUT (*hint: a trace of sarcasm might have been used in that last bit.)
No offense, I just have a funny way of showing that I truly deeply know, deep down that is, that nobody really likes or cares about prunes or chinchillas.