Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 07, 2011

The origin of Arizona’s obsession with an undocumented alien.

Eddie didn’t explain how he got his boat back.

So Captain Eddie is as old as the Grand Canyon? Hmm.

Arizona is older than the Grand Canyon.Just listen.

Eddie must be older than dirt.

Eddie, anyone with a public education knows UFOs made the Grand Canyon on the first unsuccessful attempt at pyramids.

‘Amen’ to that Eddie! Good stuff!

Gee Lew, I must have missed that class.

Why was Captain Eddie boating in some guys bath tub?

No problem getting the boat back, he just walked to the front of the boat and it slid down the pinnacle to the Colorado, Rio Grande, etc. Reminds me of the story a few years back on the “The Last Page” of the Smithsonian magazine, I believe, where the man who built his boat needed to get it to the river, hitched his mule to it and started downhill. He and the mule ended up in the boat on a wild ride through the brush, across the highway and finally into the river.

For those who suggested evolution for the GC, try EROSION. Last I knew, only creation science which is as iffy as evolution suggests the canyon was created that way. But hey, if you believe in spontaneous generation, you’ll believe anything a guy with a degree tells you so evol. believers hardly qualify as deep thinkers either.

Yep, I believe it!

That is one cool cat.

the basics of nature…death brings forth life…for the death of man…the death and resurrection of Jesus brings forth life..

Living in Phoenix I’ve only made one trip that far north. It is amazing how in a medium size state you can have so many different elevations that you can drive a few hours and have a totally different climate.

I love Flo’s comment —During the Junior Bush administration, tour guides were actually telling people that the Canyon was made by waters from Noah’s flood. Our tax dollars at work!

I would think that Kate wouldn’t believe Captain Eddie….

Nightshade – What I’ve read is that the tour guides are trained to tell people the canyon was carved over millions of years by the waters of he Colorado river.One EX tour guide wrote a book saying he’d changed his mind and now believes that it was formed by the Biblical Flood.The controversy that arose was due to the Park Service having decided to sell his book alongside those on the history and geology of the Canyon.They then moved it to the section for spirituality and philosophy.

The first panel looks like a scene from “Time Bandits”

Yup, you anti-religious might be right. Of course in that case, why sffer the slings and arrows. Jump right in ye non-believers. No reason to suffer.Ah, perchance to dream——There is the rub.

Wow – gotta love all the people trying to turn this into a religion/political debate. This is clearly an apolitical strip intended to be ironic and amusing. Take the chips off your shoulders, please.

the sign should say due to the political reasons….welcome to arizona, but not for the following….

The Episcopal Church has many free thinkers. (Check out the Robin Williams list.)

A hole in the ground…Newly found…Now 6 thousand years old…Can only be told,,,

As the answer to all…For evolution’s call…Says 100 billion more likely…In years more to be,,,

That Christ would enfold…And were be to told…That longer than that….Would surely be shat…

Noahs Flood: Believed by Jews, Muslims and Christians. Where is the tolerance of others beliefs? A global flood is found in the history of most all ancient cultures – if you are looking for non-religous support. Plus there is evidence of a major flood near the same time period in the archaelogical strata – for a scienticfic view. There is more evidence for a world wide flood, then against.

That’s the guy! :D

The “Noah’s Ark theory”? I can’t say I’ve ever heard of Noah’s Ark creating the Grand Canyon… it happened on the wrong side of the planet. :-s

Not at all sir not at all

I would first like to ask how Mr. Wiley reached his conclusion that the whole Noah’s ark story, including a worldwide flood, is implausible? It is easy to ridicule without serious research. For some people it seems to be enough to say, “Ha ha. Look how silly I think this story is. Therefore it is false.”

On the other hand there is ample scientific evidence consistent with a worldwide flood. A few examples should suffice. There are marine fossils in rock layers a mile above sea level in the Grand Canyon. There are even fossils of shellfish in the Himalayas. In fact, there are billions of dead things buried in rock layers all over the earth due to rapid burial. When Mountain Saint Helen erupted in 1980 it rocked (no pun intended) the scientific world. Some things that uniformitarian geologists said takes millions of years to happen took only a matter of seconds, some a few minutes, and a mini scale of the Grand Canyon was formed in only a matter of weeks. So please at least examine the evidence for both sides of an issue before you decide to ridicule another person’s justified beliefs.PS. @ Fritz Goebel. Regarding ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, it is was well known that Ernst Haeckel faked his drawings soon after he came out with them. The late Stephen Jay Gould and even Eugenie Scott admits to the same. Unfortunately, these drawings are still found in some text books to prove evolution.

Science is now proving that the “great flood” did cause the grand canyon…..read up people