Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for September 29, 2013

According to the Jewish calendar, the birthday of the universe (anniversary of the first day of creation) was just a few weeks ago. So this is a timely strip! :)

Age of universe according to NASA: 13.77 ± 0.059 billion years

http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/uni_age.html

So, I’m good with 14 Gya if we use two significant digits.

Don’t be nasty, she isn’t a year over 13,500,000,123 years.

Universe is just Great !!!

Pie is simply one of the best words in the English language.

Well, that’s one fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible. There are others. There are legitimate sources that state that dates and times before the Sixth Day are not to be understood as we know them today (which makes sense – what is a “day” before there is an Earth and Sun, for instance.) ~6000 years since the first civilized human beings is far more believable than 6000 years since the big bang. (Some date the oldest human artifacts to about 9000 years ago, but not much further than that.)

I’ve also read a very good essay about how the 6 days of creation is not literally describing creation of the world, but how it is an allegorical description of God’s creation of prophecy in the world – how He took a merely biological creature (some early human – which could be descendant from apes, for whatever that is worth) and gave him a divine spirit capable of receiving prophecy, with Adam being the first.

The Church may disagree with these theories, but the Church is not the final word on how to understand the Bible (unless you’re Catholic, of course.)

For Hammy I prefer “Innocence is Bliss.” Not always so in this world, making Hammy all the more wonderful. Carry on, Hammy !

Has it ever occured to anyone that the universe is EXTREMELY older than that?

Forget the theory of the “Big Bang”. What if the Universe has ALWAYS existed?

Everybody loves pie!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr2zDGCg3T4

I can find all sorts of info on bird habitats, attracting Hummingbirds or Butterfly’s but there’s nothing on how to create a Hammy Habitat, so sad.

Look to Texas for loonies trying to use the Bible as a science book. They are neither liberal nor progressive.

If I understand you, it is amazing how ignorant some people are. And I hope you understand me.

russell5419: Fairy tales can be ignored, but myth is truth in a figurative and fictional form because fact is just an imperfect compilation of data. The Greco-Roman myths we had to study in school don’t tell us much about God, but they sure tell us a lot about humans. The alleged conflict between science and religion is just a device to keep people divided. There is not enough space to list it here, but I have over a half page list of major scientific discoveries made by clergy, and that does not include my father, a Methodist pastor in north Texas who had three Upper Cretaceous species to his credit.