Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 25, 2018

More like the acne of evolution (a pimple on its butt, one could say).

This reminds me of this book I read some years ago called Ishmael.

The premise is that this man meets a talking gorilla who tells him all sorts of philosophical stuff. At one point, the gorilla tells the man a story about this jellyfish who tells a scientist about when the earth was first formed and the jellyfish appeared, and ends it there.

It was basically a reference to how we think the world revolves around humanity, and that all of Earth’s history is just a buildup to us, when that’s not the case.

I remember a 3rd-grade teacher trying to explain to us how different vertebrate groups were more “advanced” than others. I drove her nuts since I kept insisting that, by all her own qualifications, birds are probably more “advanced” than mammals (They appeared later on, they’re quite diverse and common, they’re endothermic and adaptable…).

No credit to the stuffed tiger that also came out of this entire process.

Just remember that the coyote always bought Acme products.

You realize that means you’ll never catch the roadrunner, right Calvin?

Every human thinks that.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen THIS strip in any of my C&H books. (Don’t we mean Calvin technically came in 1985?)

But wait, there’s Ken Ham’s Ark Encounter, not to mention we’ve only been around for 6K years … ?!? …

And now I have Airplane’s “Crown of Creation” for an earworm. :[

It’s possible we’ve peaked already and we didn’t recognize it. Diversity is headed for a pinch point.

I think Calvin means apex.

Well sure, the Acme, if you mean in the Wile E. Coyote sense.

Young Calvin Creationism …

More like the acne.

wow!!!! this kids really hungup on himself!!!!

The ACME, in fact!!

hate to bring it up, but I think Buttercup is channeling Calvin

He got the Acme part right – except its closer to the RoadRunner definition, rather than the dictionary definition.

More like the Dollar Tree of evolution.

Hard to imagine Calvin is thirty now.

Anyone know Chris Smither’s song, “Origin of the Species”?

Actually modern man showed up 200,000 years ago. Just showing off:>)

I think that the CAVEMAN probably know more than Calvin. So maybe we just getting stupidest, I don’t know!

My God, Calvin’s 36 now…

It’s what everybody believes in their heart of hearts.

Calvin’s 30-something this year.

Calvin’s age should be 39. He was 6 years old when the strip started, which was in 1985. Or, he is 29 years old because he was 6 years old when the strip ended at the end of 1995-beginning of ‘96.

This explains so much. If he is the Acme of evolution, and the Coyote keeps buying from Acme, I now under stand why it always fails for him.

When one considers the vastness of the cosmos, humanity is less than an unimportant stochastic blip in the scheme of things. The view that humanity is important is a manifestation of insufferable arrogance.

Whenever C&H gets philosophical or political, I have no idea what to say about it.

Sorry, Calvin. You’re not so much an acme as an unintended side-effect.

. . . do you realize that Calvin is an “adult” now and could very well have children of his own? Makes me wonder, who he married, how HIS children are turning out, and what career Calvin has chosen? lol! :)

. . . enjoy this . . . https://zenpencils.com/comic/128-bill-watterson-a-cartoonists-advice/

And how did that Acme stuff work out for the coyote in the road runner cartoons?

“You – are the crown of creation”

Jefferson Airplane

it is the default human view of the world.

Evolution doesn’t guarantee progress, it only guarantees change.

Calvin, unless you start making up to Susie quick, you are doomed to become just a little dead end on the evolutionary tree.

man thought they were superior to dolphins because man had invented war, money and digital watches while dolphins just swam around all day having fun, strangely dolphins thought htis was the exact same reason they were superior.

true that

Hobbes is not impressed… everyone knows tigers are ‘the acme of evolution.’

The theory of cross-species serendipitous evolution as explanation for the world we see and how we got here is indeed reflective of a six-year-old`s mentality. Calvin continues to impress us with his vocabulary, however.

‘Epitome’ perhaps?

I’m pretty sure Calvin was going for “apex” there, because when I think “acme” I think of the company that makes defective products for catching road runners.

Since it requires a “cause” to produce an "effect. What or Who caused the effect which produced the first bacteria? Hmmm.

Human apes are just one small twig on the vast tree of life.

These are quotes from two biologists:

You know, there’s this pervasive idea in biology that I think is wrong. It goes: we humans are at the pinnacle of the evolutionary tree, and as you get up that tree, brain size must get bigger. But a fly is just as evolved as a human. It’s just evolved to a different niche.— Jeremy Niven

Humans aren’t high on the evolutionary scale…there is no evolutionary scale. We aren’t the pinnacle of anything.— PZ Myers

And let us ignore God. Genesis 1:1-28 "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.

14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:

15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.

16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven "

The key word is replenish.

We are doing a lousy job at custodian and caretaker. Though there are those who work to replenish.

You can’t spell acme without “ME!”

1988? It’s good thing that Calvin missed the Internet / smart phone era…

Life forms and species come and go over the millennia.

Sadly, too many do read evolution that way. Alas it works without any plan, simply serving those best suited to their environment. All life, tuned to fit best into it’s eco-system, for food, breeding, and survival.