Mythtickle by Justin Thompson

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revtry said, 3 months ago

Evolution is a myth. 150+ years of scientific research and zero, zip, nada, proof, evidence, or support. That is a failed theory that for some reason people want to cling to.
farren said, 3 months ago

That’s the most ignorant statement about evolution I think I’ve ever seen.
jumbobrain said, 3 months ago

Maybe it’s just that first comment, but I don’t get what the point of this comic is. The rendering is pretty nice, though, even if the footwork is borrowed from Cheech Wizard.
baslim_the_begger said, 3 months ago

It’s all a joke, folks!

Seriously!

Fall for Myths!

Get It!
wndrwrthg said, 3 months ago

Well, if we are to speak of myths, all the worlds religions fall in that category.
Sisyphos said, 3 months ago

Poor Booty! Such a believer in paying attention to the newspaper that he missed Dudley’s red flag! –With three exclamation-points!
4deerinmyyard said, 3 months ago

Revtry, on what planet do you live?
The evidence is overwhelming – except to people who are frightened by the idea for some reason, and whom therefore no amount of proof will ever convince.
Hugh B. Hayve said, 3 months ago

ROFLMAO! Boody just got punned by the comic strip!
shadowwriter said, 3 months ago

not again with millions of idiots all arguing please.
RussellNash said, 3 months ago

Revtry, It’s 150 of people trying to knock down evolution. It still stands high.

I love how religious people think that during the cold war, two world wars, and countless other skirmishes all of the world’s scientist worked together to keep a failed idea afloat just because they hate god.

There is far more proof for evolution than for all of the world’s religions put together.
pschearer said, 3 months ago

As much as I love Justin and the Mythtickle realm, it is an injustice to lump together the most ignorant anti-evolution religious nuts along with the growing ranks of scientists, historians, and economists who have genuine evidence and arguments against the dubious claim that man-made global warming is a danger that must be stopped by massive government intrusion into the economy.
Lewreader said, 3 months ago

Son, always remember, you can trust the government
NebulousRikulau said, 3 months ago

I always trust the government…
.
To @#$% things up.

Forget carbon dating, there are tree ring sequences that go back much more than the 6000 years that the Short Time Creationists believe.
Kerovan said, 3 months ago

Trouble is too much of the proof has been corrupted or squeezed. If you look at a chart of human evolution sometime, take a good look at the dates. Some of the “precursors” to man have dates out of keeping with the time they were supposed to exist. In fact one of them lived and died before it’s “Ancestor” in the tree of man. Evolution has a lot to recommend it but get the facts straight, it’s still called the Theory of evolution.

Four thoughts, in any other field of human science falsifying data is a horrible crime. Darwin himself could never answer the question: “If all life on earth evolved from a single cell, how complex would that cell have to be to explain the diversity of life?” nor has anyone else since him answered it. The Bible gives us no clue as to how long the earth has existed. Genesis speaks of the heavens and earth being created in one day and then says “One Day” not “The Next Day” when talking of the creation of man. Finally, there is not any scientific inaccuracy in the bible, despite the highly inaccurate ideas of the time periods it was written, andif you check some of the dates where events are described, you realize they were written centuries before those events (example: the fall of Jerusalem is recorded in the Dead Sea Scrolls which predate that fall by over 400 years).
iamtxmilady said, 3 months ago

Uh, guys, this is a COMIC STRIP, not theology 101.
et2008 said, 3 months ago

Ah, let me get this straight - if a government pushes an idea, your default position is that it’s bad. Hmm, let’s get a list going:

Democracy
Public Safety (Health, Fire, Police)
Centers for Disease Control
Medicare
Disaster Relief (Except for Brownie!)
Veterans Affairs
National Defense
FDA
FAA
EPA
FTC
NASA
.
.
.

Granted political ideologies swing the pendulum radically at times and no agency is perfect in any way. But it’s very difficult to argue, in the large, that government is bad and any idea put forward by a government is bad. Try using a few of your neurons for critical thinking. Evolution’s complex, global climate change is complex, just about every important issue of the day is complex. Just because an issue is complex doesn’t mean it’s wrong.

Sheesh!
Orgelspieler said, 3 months ago

Don’t rassle with pigs. The pigs enjoy it, and you’ll just git covered with “bleeep”.
JUSTIN THOMPSON said, 3 months ago

Alright, but apart from the aquaduct,
Democracy
Public Safety (Health, Fire, Police)
Centers for Disease Control
Medicare
Disaster Relief (Except for Brownie!)
Veterans Affairs
National Defense
FDA
FAA
EPA
FTC and
NASA ,…
WHAT have the Romans ever done for US?

;)
someone_different said, 3 months ago

revtry said, about 9 hours ago

Evolution is a myth. 150+ years of scientific research and zero, zip, nada, proof, evidence, or support. That is a failed theory that for some reason people want to cling to.

Seems to me you just proved your own point
reocare said, 3 months ago

ok all back to the comic strip…..seriously? haha (I liked)
bye bye
Dypak said, 3 months ago

iamtxmilady said,
Uh, guys, this is a COMIC STRIP, not theology 101.
—-
If this is the focus of Justin’s extended story line (see yesterday) expect alot of this kind of discussion.

Orgelspieler said,
Don’t rassle with pigs. The pigs enjoy it, and you’ll just git covered with “bleeep”.
—-
The phrase you’re looking for is ‘pig by-products’.

I am always amazed that with all the beauties and mysteries of life people try to explain it with theories and religion. I think the difficulty comes from both sides. There are some on the side of science who feel that if science can explain a thing this proves God does not exist. This is wrong. And there are some on the religious side of things who feel that they can understand and explain the actions of God. They are wrong also (and guilty of incredible arrogance). You can no more describe the hows and whys of Gods creation than you can prove or disprove that he exists. There is so much more going on in creation than a job of six days. Why do we try to limit God’s greatness to the weakness of mans understanding? And why can’t people see the hand of God at work in the evidence of science and technology? Knowing that the hard evidence of science shows an evolutionary process of billions of years only deepens Gods mystery and wonder.
jestrfyl said, 3 months ago

I wonder if the elephants under the planet will catch Boody with their trunks! If not, I hope he bends his knees and rolls on the tortoise’s shell. Otherwise - well - I’m just not sure where he will wind up. Now THERE is an adventure!
JUSTIN THOMPSON said, 3 months ago

Don’t worry, the storyline isn’t about newspapers, evolution, or making anyone angry. There might be a mention in tomorrow’s strip that could continue this stuff, but that’s really not the point of the story. It’s ust a catalyst to begin the adventure which, I promise, is fun and silly.
It’s never my intention to make anyone feel defensive, I am working from the understanding that this is just a comic strip. I will continue to assume that it will be taken that way.
Saskfan said, 3 months ago

et2008: you forgot the NRA.

Changing identities as I run and hide from the rulers of the universe…
Doctor Toon said, 3 months ago

Justin - You opened up a BIG can of worms today.
I’m glad Thor has experience battling Trolls.
There will be some hanging around here for days now.
3lizab3th said, 3 months ago

My theroy is that if evolution is real, I’ll die before I can evolve.

So brush your teeth three times a day. Eat candy. Be happy.

My theory is pretty easy to abide by.
dwalbeck said, 3 months ago

Diesm was extremely popular during the Age of Enlightenment. With this in mind, the idea that humankind has been gifted with the ability to expand their own understanding of the world around them and control their own destiny is hugely important in both scientific and religous advances. Still I find it highly foolish for any human who believes there is an all powerful God who only limits his power into human terms like days. While it is easy to think of God creating the world in one day and the remainder of the earthly elements in the following days, does God really work in limited time? Time was not created before God, so is it possible that the time limitations were only imposed on humanity to establish the magnitude of God’s power? If we are to assume the both the Bible and scientific discoveries are correct while claiming there is a God, it would be impossible to assume the dates within the Bible and the natural world would agree… This leaves only one conclusion, neither one is incorrect, but the ability of humanity to understand and record history before humanit existed is potentially failable. Isn’t it also heretical to assume humanity can fully understand the complexity and power of God? The problem then is how literal do we want to interpret a human constructed document that has been modified over thousands of years depending on translations, religous bias, and political developments. I would side on the diest approach, something larger than us had a role in aiding and nurturing our inital development, but it is up to us now to use the inate power within to try to understand our world and use that knowlege to improve our society.
DivasRus said, 3 months ago

Justin asked (rather tongue-in-cheek): “WHAT have the Romans ever done for US?”

… at the very least, I am reminded of the toga, from which we get such wonderful parties!!!

:-D
Doriation said, 3 months ago

RE: Justin’s 1st comment today -

“NOTHIN’!!”

(hahahaha!)
JUSTIN THOMPSON said, 3 months ago

That was a line from ‘Life of Brian’. Am I that old? Have I outgrown my audience?
BlueRaven said, 3 months ago

Kerovan, the Bible claims the sun stood still in the sky. It has never done that anywhere ever, and it is also a false description of how the relationship between the sun and Earth works. The Earth moves around the sun, so the sun cannot stand still. This is a scientific inaccuracy in the Bible, so your statement there is patently false. Second, you have NO idea what the evolutionary record shows if you think it has falsified data. You who would lie about the contents of your holy book cannot be trusted to discuss evolution. Good day, sir.
4deerinmyyard said, 3 months ago

Sigh.
@ pschearer: The ranks that are growing (re global warming) are all on the other side.
@ Kerovan: “…it’s still called the Theory of evolution.” Aargh. I knew somebody was going to say this. Somebody always says this. “It’s ‘just’ a theory.”
Scientists (when they’re being precise in their communication) use the word “theory” differently from how laypersons use it. Laypersons think it means the same as “hypothesis”; it does not. Think of it this way: a hypothesis is an embryonic theory; a theory is a grown-up hypothesis. In other words, a theory began life as a hypothesis AND SURVIVED TESTING to the point of being adequately PROVEN. A theory is a concept that has surmounted all legitimate challenges. When new FACTS are discovered, sometimes theories must be revised. In one and a half centuries since the publication of On the Origin of Species, Darwin’s and Wallace’s basic insight has been tinkered with, modified, refined, and modernized. Their version was a Model T whereas the modern version is a Beamer M3. But they’re both CARS, as opposed to horse-and-buggy rigs. In those same 150 years, EVERY piece of evidence that has been dug up has only served to confirm and improve, not to overthrow, the original concept.
But scientists have nobody but themselves to blame for the fact that laypersons don’t understand this crucial difference between a hypothesis and a theory, since scientists themselves are often careless in their use of the terms. I herewith slap their hands for that.
In short, the “theory” of evolution is precisely as “theoretical” as the “theory” of gravity. If you wish to challenge the theory of evolution, I suggest that you first challenge the theory of gravity; the experiment is far easier. Go up to the roof. Step off. Good luck.
@ et2000: …But it’s very difficult to argue, in the large, that government is bad and any idea put forward by a government is bad. … Just because an issue is complex doesn’t mean it’s wrong.
THANK you. (For your “complex” I usually say “scary”, because it seems to me that that is frequently a large part of the problem.)
@ Orgenspieler: Good advice, and I usually follow it; but sometimes one has to stand up and defend reason.
@ Dypak: “…Why do we try to limit God’s greatness to the weakness of mans understanding? And why can’t people see the hand of God at work in the evidence of science and technology? Knowing that the hard evidence of science shows an evolutionary process of billions of years only deepens Gods mystery and wonder.”
And thank YOU.
@ jestrfyl: Terry Pratchett ref FTW! :-D
@ Justin: “…this is just a comic strip. I will continue to assume that it will be taken that way.”
Yeah, good luck with that. :-D (Hey, I didn’t start it!)
@ Saskfan: The NRA is not – yet – the government. Although they think they should be. ;-)
@ dwalbeck: “…The problem then is how literal do we want to interpret a human constructed document that has been modified over thousands of years depending on translations, religous bias, and political developments….”
Yay.
@Blue Raven: “…Second, you have NO idea what the evolutionary record shows if you think it has falsified data…..”
Hallelujah! Thanks.

Wow. I started out really depressed. But some of the later comments have heartened me considerably.
rricchhterr said, 3 months ago

take a look around…. and in terms of logic, consider these- if god made everything, then who made god? if god made the devil, then who is worse? yet by the other token, how do you get something from nothing? the bottom line, from here, is we are in a very big universe, we are probably not the only life forms with half a brain…l say that because we say things like Santa Claus, when it should be San Claus, last l checked , yet nobody gets it, anyway, l know l cannot worship anything that would allow incest, nor rape period… somethings matter, somethings don’t… Oh, and do’nt mistake intelligence for scrouples….
rricchhterr said, 3 months ago

the other thing is, if you are thinking that god is way bigger in some sense, this is fine…consider that he is supposed to be all knowing, so he would know the pain you are going through.Do not belittle yourself. lf you happen to think you had a past life, then why don’t you remember it, l don’t know about you, but l did not ask to be born, yet here l am, and l do not settle for bs.
Just plain Steve said, 3 months ago

Agreed 4deer – your comments in particular!
KalahariNight said, 3 months ago

@Justin, if this is the setup, I eagerly await the story :-)

Would it be ok with you if this panel got shown once in, oh, say, in the middle of a Geology 102 lecture? (With proper and emphatic credit of course!)
KalahariNight said, 3 months ago

PS: @Justin, no, you certainly have not outgrown your audience. Always look on the bright side of life :-)
NebulousRikulau said, 3 months ago

Kerovan said,
Evolution has a lot to recommend it but get the facts straight, it’s still called the Theory of evolution.

Gravity has a lot to recommend it, but get the facts straight, it’s still called the Theory of Gravity.

Yes, there are inconsistencies in both the timeline and the family tree of the Hominids, but if they already knew everything about it, they wouldn’t need to study anymore.

Consider also that there are dinosaur bone beds with more specimens of a single species of dinosaur than there are specimens of all species of Hominids.
(other than Homo sapiens, that is.)
Dypak said, 3 months ago

Taking a cue from 4deerinheryard:
@ dwalbek - “Isn’t it also heretical to assume humanity can fully understand the complexity and power of God?” I agree 100% I think the biggest problem with religion is when people try to understand God, rather than just accept and have faith.

@4deerinheryard - Thanks. And thanks for also noticing jestrfyl’s Pratchett reference. My avatar is supposed to be Sam Vimes. If I were to chose at hero from literature, even at my age, it would be Commander Vimes. “That is not my cow!”

@ rricchhterr - I always try to look at God as children look at their parents. Little children often wonder why their parents allow bad things to happen, they don’t understand life. It is the same way with God and bad things. I guess if there was no evil in the world we could not appreciate goodness and kindness, we would take it for granted. God has to allow evil in the world so that we can choose to be good? I don’t know. Like a child, I don’t understand. But it doesnt stop me from trying to do good.

@Justin - Sorry man, Life of Brian was AFTER my time. I’m a Holy Grail man, myself. “Help, help, I’m being oppressed!” We’re all glad you’re back, hope you had a great time at the convention!
rricchhterr said, 3 months ago

Dypak- good points, l’ve wondered how something perfect can make something imperfect… as far as trying as best as one can, no matter what you do, you have to live with yourself…
Dypak said, 3 months ago

What scares me are the ones who really don’t care what they do. Talk about the nature of evil.
Burgundy2 said, 3 months ago

I’ve quite enjoyed the comments today. Although it started out with a bit of posturing, it smoothed out to a rational discussion of how we view God and science.
@Dypak I particularly like your idea of how we look at God the way children look at their parents. that really puts it in perspective. helps me to clarify a few things.
Allan Brown said, 3 months ago

Excuse me but am I the only one who sees the dichotomy of a mythical creature defending the scientific concept of creation to a talking beer can who consorts with an evil spider and one side of a bipolar (the nice side) spirit of luck?
Allan Brown said, 3 months ago

Another thought

why all the SOTU comments when we know that Thor’s daddy Odin created the world anyway???
4deerinmyyard said, 3 months ago

Not by himself. Ginnungagap, the icy void, existed before all. But the heat from fiery Muspelheim met the frosty vapor from frozen Niffleheim, and ice melted drop by drop to refreeze in the forms of Ymir, the first Frost Giant, and Audhumbla (sp?), the First Cow. Audhumbla licked the shape of Buri, the First Man, out of the ice. Odin was Buri’s grandson. He and his brothers Vili and Ve together slew Ymir and created Midgard out of his corpse.

Good-night, everybody.

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