Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 16, 2016

Such is faith, my girl.

Like I said. This is what her beady little eyes can see, and what she assumes it means.(She should figure out what she should see if the Earth is roughly spherical and roughly the size everyone says it is. She’d find that the results would match what her beady little eyes actually see.)

Except comics are two-dimensional; without depth. Per her perspective, she IS correct – her Earth is indeed flat.

Faith is an island in the setting sun, proof is the bottom line for everyone-Paul Simon

“Science just muddles the belief system waters.”, man, I’m calling John Bartlet right this minute…..That’s a quote worthy of Samuel Clemens…….Good one, Miller…… BTW, StCleve, I love Paul Simon….So many great songs over an incredible period of time…“I got no deeds to do, No promises to keep. I’m dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep. Let the morning time drop all its petals on me…Life I love you. All is groovy.”

BTW, as a substitute teacher, I use “Groovy” just for fun….Some of the kids just roll their eyes, others smile and giggle….Every once in a while a kid will ask me "What was it like to be a hippy?….My best answer is, “Well everybody was!” I don’t add “Ask your Grandma, she was probably a hippy chick.”….Seriously, you gotta love hippy chicks…BTW, they’re still out there….

Varnes   “Playing footsie in another dimension”?

Faith is an irrational belief in something that is logically impossible. (Dr. Temperance (Bones) Brennan / Emily Deschanel)

Richardelguru, Sorta, I’ve been think about how current science, Quantum Theory,posits the existence of infinite realities, or dimensions….A whole spectrum of realities….And we’re in all of them!….Remember that time you almost got hit by a bus?..In another dimension, you did…

Bad science muddies the waters even more, but it might be a different belief system taking the blow!

Faith is the hope that your beliefs are correct. (And that is being charitable. )

I’d say she IS a conservative, no turning back from it now for her.

The girl’s a natural-born Republican!

It is very amusing, how people can see the same thing and come to completely different conclusions about what they saw. Just answer this, which side, denies science, I’ll wait.

Science is not a religion.

If the Earth is flat, you should be able to see the Rocky Mountains from just about anywhere on a clear day.

“Science just muddies the belief system waters”. . .thank god!

Science requires a certain amount of faith as well. Ever seen a quark, atom, or molecule?

Is the TV broken, so all it shows is FOX media; hearing some republican misrepresent reality. Lets hope all that being all wet dries out.

Sigh… I wish just one in my life I’d find an internet atheist who actually thought instead of spouting hackneyed slogans.

Danae could be living in Kansas or Nebraska where there’s hardly a hill in sight…..take her west, Dad!!!

They are too busy going after other people’s money.

@Wiley MillerI don’t want to argue religion and climate change, I want to argue that Kate should appear more often!

Kate and Danae together, I mean.

Ahh, Faith. Faith is a wonderful thing, until it turns into certainty and then fanaticism

LOL, I’m having deja vu.

In Danae’s defense, I remember being at a bar called “Sam’s” on Lookout Mountain. It was (still is?) west of Denver and had one of the best views ever. I could see Buckley AFB and it wasn’t halfway to the horizon. I knew I could see into Kansas and I was wondering if I could see the St Louis Arch if I had binoculars.If anyone else has ever been there, you’ll know what I’m talking about.

Faith #2 is no problem, especially with people (very little unless proven otherwise).Faith #1 is something else. I think there’s something but that’s my opinion and I don’t force it on other people.

“By the way: THIS is called gravity.” BOOM!

Scroll down for the video at, http://www.salon.com/2016/01/28/by_the_way_this_is_gravity_neil_degrasse_tyson_literally_just_dropped_the_mic_on_b_o_bs_flat_earth_crap/

Are there no hills in Maine, or just where Danae lives?

On the other hand, a great excuse to blast her into space!

Talk about misplaced faith!

Whoa! The Earth is spherical! That’s the word we use for “basketball-shaped” after completing first grade.Technically, the Earth is an oblate spheroid; an egg-shapedy thing.

In reality, even if one could see that accurately that far, the curvature of the earth would have prevented it. I was simply stating it seemed one could see that far, like the character Danae would surmise.

Gadzooks!!The next thing you know, she’ll believe in Global Warming!

Ah, the omniscient exoticdoc2 shows up, as expected. If fact, the only unexpected thing about his comment is that it came so late; usually he’s one of the first.As usual, he says that people who accept well-substantiated science are ignoring facts in favor of “their blind belief systems,” while therefore simultaneously implying that religionists (well, at least the religionists who subscribe to his particular interpretation of his particular self-chosen religion) base their beliefs on a bedrock of unarguable fact (which it is, of course; who could possibly deny that the universe is 6,000 years old, or that an invisible zombie in the sky is watching everything we do, or that bats are birds? Solid, repeatable, empirical evidence). This is the strategy usually known as “The Big Lie.”

I’m quite familiar with the very long threads; I’ve had a large number of them with him myself, and have experienced the same anti-scientific mindset. By the way, my ancient magic book says that exoticdoc2 is male, and it is inerrant in all that it teaches, so I go with its teachings, rather than those of the so-called “scientists”.

I can see that the Earth is not flat. It’s bumpy.

Love you too, man. Your posts recently have been uniformly excellent.