Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for February 10, 2013

Todos nosotros en el mundo, Carmen, no somos hispanos.

Aw. Cute!

Look at Carmen’s glasses! Her lens are kind of different.

I wonder if Zorro ever retired?

@GoldenRoyaRight on. At my church there’s actually a group that likes science and gets together several times a year. We learn about a subject, consider Scripture. The minister who started it agrees with my biochemist father, who is also a member of the group. We think God has let us learn more about the world as we have been able to handle it.

I’m not relying on only faith or on only science to deal with a terrible combination of health issues. My bailiwick is history, trying to piece out how things once happened based on the fairly random things fallible people wrote down. I know the things people have erroneously believed in. But it is my faith and my doctors together that I put my trust in.

And was that a hospital bracelet on him in the first few panels?

GoldenRoya: It is not either/or. My father was clergy and the discoverer of three Upper Cretaceous fossil species. Before “scientist” became an occupation, most scientists were also clergy: Bacon, Copernicus, Kepler, Newton, Swedenhborg, Priestly, Faraday, Mendel, Lemaitre, Bakker, and Darwin was in seminary when Lyell persuaded him to take a break from studies and sign on to the Beagle expedition. Since God can neither be verified nor falsified by the scientific method (see Thomas Huxley "On Agnosticism), atheism is just as much a faith statement as any other religion.

Had she cast her mind back in time to when her husband had been there to talk to? It is sweet, with some sadness thrown in. Interesting how he kind of fades out.

“There are more things in Earth and Heaven, Horatio, than yor philosophy wots of.” – Hamlet