Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 14, 2013

And there are plenty of people who share Danae’s view (on thinking, that is).

…as Danae continues to commit some very original sins of her own :)

My post today is about yesterday’s comments, and has nothing to do with today. If that bothers you, please ignore.

A few of the many shows I’ve seen: Black Sabbath (twice in 1971, and once in 1978, all original lineup.)Humble Pie (with Frampton) (1971, opened for BS /\.)Alvin Lee & Ten Tears After (1973, and again about 1974)Led Zeppelin (1977)Lynyrd Skynyrd (Three times, once with Ed Burns, and all pre-Steve Gains.)Heart (1978)ELO (1978)Yes ( x3 )Eric Clapton (1974)Three Dog Night (1972, and, yes, it was a great show.)Edgar Winter & Rick Derringer (about 1973)Leon Russell (about 1973)Allman Brothers Band (1974)

Is that first panel awesome, or what?

And ya gotta love a hen pecked God….Sorry, I’ll shut up now…But I won’t stop chuckling…

“In the heavens, are parents single?No, the thought makes reason stareTruth is reason, Truth EternalTells me I’ve a mother there.”—Eliza R. Snow

Sorry Danae, still NOT buying it!!

I know this defies the law of gravity, but I never studied law.—- Bugs Bunny.

So… that was The Fall, eh?

Faith-Based Physics is an oxymoron.

So, this just prooves that behind every great god, there’s a… Mrs. Almighty!

G R A V I T Y, gravity, the big GGravity, G R A V I T Y, say itGravity, gotten a hold on me

You want to see something funny; look up the lyrics to Gravity, by James Brown. Every interpretation I looked at was incorrect; obviously interpreted by someone who listens to Pat Boone.

religion hates science.

Best drawn, best wit.

YepMakes ya discontent

The Onion called it Intelligent Falling.

drop it off when finished….or is that the _____ of the problem? not sorry ’bout that….

Visualize rational thought.

“When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, ‘Let us pray.’ We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.”—Bishop Desmond Tutu

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.—- Martin Luther 1483-1546

Great strip today, Wiley . The first panel is truly a masterpiece of cartooning. Thanks for a great laugh and an enjoyable strip.

Come to think of it… all religion is based on someone’s cockeyed ideas… why should Dana’s be any different?

Whoops, I guess we have to rewind the clock now and erase all religious, God-believing people have taught us. Let’s see, that means we’ll still have fire, the wheel I think, some form of clothing, fishing and hunting, agriculture. But no botany, no literature, no physics, no pollution laws, no astronomy….

Is that how it happened to Uncle Ben’s Rice?

That first panel could be used for a screen wallpaper. Beautiful!

Danae makes as much sense as the other religious nonsense I have heard.

Heresy! Blasphemy! Where are the dinosaurs? I demand dinosaurs!!! Oh, wait, never mind. She’s right there in the third panel. May He touch her with his noodly appendage. Ramen.

People who believe that religion and critical thinking are incompatible are the most brainless of all…

Obey Gravity!It’s the Law!

my first thought was that all those “plops” were the by -products of whatever the animals were eating…..aka S_ _ _

So, unbelievers, you haven’t been thinking. All these comments and not one has yet noted that it was not the Mrs. who created the gravity. She only reminded her hubby to activate/set it.

And as to a multi-personed Almighty, that is exactly what the Bible teaches – three persons, even. And it is because God is a relational being that he created us for relationship with Him. Amazing how hard that is for some to accept.

Exactly right; the biblical god wants mindless obedience, and fears nothing so much as a thinking human being. Most christians nowadays carry that out to perfection (while, of course, ignoring any commands that might affect their lifestyle).

There is no gravity – the earth sucks.

Only believe Danae in the fall.

I happen to agree with your second sentence; in the first, of course, I would replace god-given by evolution-produced.What do you think of using our brains (comparative religion, anthropology, the hard sciences, including radiometric dating, etc.) to show that the stories in the bible resemble other well-known myths of that pre-scientific time period, and can be shown to be erroneous if taken as literal histories? Thinking men have known since before Darwin that the earth was more than 6,000 years old, and since Darwin that we are not created, but rather evolved, and kin to all other forms of life on the planet.

1) “And so sad to hear you have a job teaching lies to young people.”

I teach math. Are you suggesting that algebra is lies?2) Have you given any thought as to why your “evidence” and arguments, which you seem to think conclusive, evoke so little response among real scientists? Except, of course, for pity, disgust, and derision?3) I forgot to post the link to an excellent work, “29+ Evidences for Macroevolution: The Scientific Case for Common Descent” by Douglas Theobald:http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/4) Here’s an interesting article on the evolution of the sucker of the remora:http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/07/17/what-good-is-half-a-sucker/And here’s Dr. Coyne’s comment: “If evolution is true, one should be able to trace the origin of novel structures from their predecessors, with every step of this evolution being adaptive. If creationism were true, one would never or rarely be able to trace the evolutionary stages of such novelties. Well, we know that evolution is true (if you don’t accept that, go over to your own site, Answers in Genesis), but it’s exciting to see traits whose evolution wasn’t fully understood get this kind of clarification.”I’m simply not interested in your verbiage, your outdated arguments, your lies (most notably in the quote mining), your apparent inability to understand natural selection, and your silly religion, more or less indistinguishable from other myths of the time. The evidence supports evolution; pretending otherwise is some combination of wishful thinking and the fallacy of an appeal to consequences.