The Flying McCoys by Glenn McCoy and Gary McCoy for April 23, 2014

@ exoticdoc2: No, but if there are a million MEN that share that DNA (which is about as accurate as can be measured), then there’s a 999,999/1,000,000 chance that he’s innocent.

BTW, was “exoticdoc” taken already?

The new “Cosmos” episode “Some of the Things That Molecules Do” was pretty good. You guys should check it out.

The chimps are wondering who’s the real murderous banana-eating primate.

anywho, the client looks pleased….home free!

Gorilla ElliotensisMC approves

Your client is a banana eating primate??

Riiiiiiight, the creation of the universe by a giant sky fairy makes much more sense than the Scientific Theory of Evolution.

I find it fascinating, amusing and a little bit frightening that a simple cartoon like this raises so much ire in the creationist community. Not too sure of yourselves, are you? You can quibble over some of the technical details of how evolution works – and scientists do, openly – and if you ultimately don’t choose to accept it as scientifically valid, that’s your right. Of course it would be nice if you really studied the matter enough to understand what it is you’re choosing to reject.

What you can’t quibble with is that science and creationism approach the subject from two very different perspectives. Science tries to learn and understand how things work from the available, observable evidence. If new evidence arises that modifies scientific thinking, so be it. Science isn’t wedded to a particular theory or version of events. Science has no agenda.

Creationism, by comparison, has an agenda: it says that the Holy Book’s version of events is the only true and correct explanation. This drives creationists to find evidence to support that agenda, and to ignore huge bodies of evidence that would not support it.

Too bad we can’t simply agree to leave science to the scientists and the schools and religion to the churches. Then we could stop having these silly – and ultimately pointless – debates.

Here’s a link to a really good discussion of the subject (for the open-minded): http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11876.html

Edgar Alan Poe already did this in “Murder in the Rue Morgue.”