#39145: — 09/07  at  07:33 AM

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/uc/20050829/ltt050829.gif

I hear that one WAY too much, for such a simple and ridiculous arguement.

#39156: notheory — 09/07  at  08:25 AM
What i find most embarressing is that larry-freaking-king has asked that question.

#39158: DouglasG — 09/07  at  08:30 AM
http://www.comics.com/comics/hedge/archive/hedge-20050903.html
Even "mainstream" comics have chimed in. Perhaps the ID silliness tide is on its way out. I can wish can't I?

#39167: — 09/07  at  09:26 AM

What i find most embarressing is that larry-freaking-king has asked that question.

In which context? He asked as if was really his own doubt (or point againt evolution), or he was interviwewing a biologist, and asked that more or less in behalf of thousands of people who sadly can't answer that themselves?


... other thing..... some people not only ask "why are there still monkeys" at the same time they point that we don't see a extant gradient of transitional monkey-human species (once one person even said, as an example, "like some people in an island with long tails"), but just the "kinds". Their reasoning probably is that since still there are not-so close relatives alive, the closer relatives should still be alive too.

This thing of adaptation to so called "niches" probably is just an atheist excuse, hehe.

#39170: — 09/07  at  09:53 AM

What i find most embarressing is that larry-freaking-king has asked that question.

I've been watching a fair deal of Larry King since Katrina (well, actually, my wife's been watching him), and I have to admit, he is rather a self-important goofball. I don't think I've ever seen him say anything I would really call insightful. Tho I guess these days, him merely not being a venomous rightwing crank makes him look pretty darn good.

#39172: PurpleKoolaid — 09/07  at  10:06 AM
I've been meaning to do a "Vengeful Meteorology" cartoon as a followup. ("The moral barometer shows that sinning is rising while faith is falling. The forecast is showing an 80% chance of hurricanes today.")

#39205: — 09/07  at  01:44 PM
can someone decipher this comment for me?

Unfortunately Millie doesn't realize that faith *is* evidence. As such it can hardly be superior, morally or otherwise, to evidence. Faith is how one can know--or is *evidence* that--another believes. The purpose of faith is not to prove truth, or justify what one wishes were truth. Agreeing that she is representative of a solid number of individuals out there, I find this cartoon is disturbing, not humorous. Fortunately she is only able to pollute ignorant minds with this nonsense and not truth itself.

#39207: notheory — 09/07  at  02:04 PM
Blah. It's the claim that faith is a conduit for knowledge of reality. So just as science is a way to come to conclusions about the nature of universe, so too, some claim, is a person's faith. Only, a person's faith is inherently private, subjective and singular (i.e. not repeatable, testable, or knowable by others).

So, whoever made that comment is trying to defray the claims that so-called "men of faith" know better than scientists, by instead claiming that such men know the universe just as well as scientists.

#39237: — 09/07  at  05:39 PM
OK, thanks. Now I understand what they were intending to convey... but ya know what? It's STILL nonsense.

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#39599: Paul — 09/11  at  08:21 PM
craig wrote:
can someone decipher this comment for me?

Craig, I got a huge laugh when I saw that comment on my blog. It always seemed to me that faith was the exact opposite of evidence, but now I have been informed of THE TRUTH. If anyone wants me, I shall be about changing my ways.