Super-Fun-Pak Comix by Ruben Bolling for April 14, 2017

Why is it that the only people who object to teaching evolution are the ones who have never tried it?

Idiocracy in action.

Predicted by C.M. Kornbluth in his story “The Marching Morons”.

Strangely enough Conservatives are proving that they can’t evolve!

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/603/

Why do the people on the left hate America and Jesus so much? Its just not right!

Good thing Evolutionary Theory doesn’t depend on a vote…“The masses have spoken”…

So, believing in evolution puts you in the pool of the population least likely to reproduce. That, Alanis, is irony.

I think Ruben is getting at a more subtle point here: it’s not that “dumb” people reproduce faster than “smart” people (the underlying sci-fi gimmick driving both “Marching Morons” and “Idiocracy”), but that in the “marketplace of ideas” the same kind of natural-selection process takes place. In our post-Enlightenment society, which puts ever-decreasing value on facts, what matters is an idea’s ability to spread. Right now, creationism, climate-change denial, and the ineffable wisdom (whiz-dumb?) of the Almighty Unregulated Free Market are doing pretty well despite being easily proven false.

I love the randomness of this strip!