Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 17, 2017

“…Oh, except one. Welcome aboard, Roget.”

See? I knew God didn’t really like lizards….I mean, hey, She had to duke it out with a snake, back in the day!…. of all things……She has an attitude about lizards, I guess….

Shouldn’t have let Austrolopithicus aboard.

What a load of lizard lint!

Well, having two brontosauruses would’ve sunk the boat. Having two T. Rexes would mean they would’ve eaten every other creature on the boat, including Noah & his family. They would’ve even eaten the saber toothed tigers!

Last I’d heard, both Ken Ham’s “Discovery Museum” and “Ark Park” claim that dinosaurs did board the ark, were all herbivores in the “Garden of Eden” and during the genocidal ark cruise, and didn’t go extinct until the days of King Arthur when the dinosaurs were all overworked as beasts of burden. Seriously.

And they have configured the story that all the large animals came as babies not adults. And that the dinos that survived were called “dragons” and other monsters. You can have loads of fun imagining all kinds of scenarios and explore them.

actually Dina got the chance to get in, but her husband, Irving Tzouris, was no where to be found.

Well, it’s as good an argument as any other I’ve heard from the pulpit.

“Actually, we go by Stevens and Bronson now. We shortened our original names for business purposes.”

At least Dinah Shore got on board.

No evidence that humans and dinosaurs existed at the same time, even in the Bible (in spite of what some fundamentalists might say). Also sorry Wiley, but just because some people have faith doesn’t automatically mean they are stupid or ignorant (and I’ve just let myself in for a “rant storm” from all the atheists who hate any one who is religious).

It’s a great story with a moral at the end of it. Try to take it seriously and you miss the point.

There is a theory that the Great Flood did happen: when the Mediterranean Sea overflowed into the Black Sea about 8,000 BCE – it was so spectacular that cultures all over the place made up stories about it. The Hebrews saw God in action so wrote him into the story. Like other matters of faith: believe it or not.

The biblical flood is based on the annual flooding of the Euphrates valley located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in modern day Iraq.

@danflak: “Try to take it seriously and you miss the point.” Well that is the point here. Lots of good parables in the bible (and other religious texts), but many too many take the stories literally and do silly things like build a replica of the ark.

Still waiting for the explanation of how the Koalas, Kangaroos and Wallabies made it from Australia to Mesopotamia with NO land bridge and NO food to eat along the way… and then of how they were dropped off JUST THERE after the “Ark” ended up on Mt. Ararat in Turkey.

I guess that makes them saur losers?

“Check under the Greek list, maybe our name is there.”

You’re on the C ark, along with the Golgofrinchans.

Alley Oop comics, anyone?

I wonder who changed the newspapers and emptied the litter boxes

Some of you miss the point. This cartoon is NOT to be taken literally as fact, but as a funny visual story. Enjoy it for what it is and laugh !

Ditto for the Torah/Bible/Quran – these are books of stories, myths, poems, – some comic, some tragic, some salacious, and some apocryphal – that should not to be interpreted literally ! Enjoy them for what they are.

Thank God I am a atheist!

My understanding of the flood was to eliminate wickedness and preserve a family of decent people. At least that’s what Genesis chapter 6:11-13 indicates. Unless some prefer fiction or Hollywood’s take on it.

With an ark full of loud smelly animals (plus the creatures he wasn’t even RELATED to!), it’s no wonder that Noah was driven to drink…….

Don’t worry, fellas. Lasaurus comes back from the grave.

I hold to classical Christianity. Actually this is not the biblical position. It’s the some, to be sure, but I don’t think that it’s the best interpretation of the text. It’s reading into the text.

You are on the next boat, fellas.

The dinosaurs got their own separate Arc, which was captained by a family of Neanderthals. Unfortunately, Neanderthals were terrible sailors.

Australia is halfway around the world from the middle east. How is a flood there going to cross the Mediterranean and the Atlantic ocean to get to Australia?

What happened to the poor salt water fish when all of that rain came down?

While I understand that Noah might’ve been fluent in Aramaic and/or Hebrew, or even Latin, Who would inform him that “Saurus” means lizards?