Bloom County 2019 by Berkeley Breathed for April 06, 2017

Okay, this time I’m with Oliver.

Enjoy your cold bath, Oliver, and enjoy being drenched in Binkley’s hatred. Too bad he’s such a wuss….

They are too young for discussions like this.

My favorite short SciFi story involves an astronaut being sucked in to a black hole. As he’s being pulled apart by the gravitational forces, he wonders where the matter goes if it can’t escape. He thinks that maybe there’s another side, and his last thought is, “Let there be light!”

I have to agree with Binkley. The cosmos is just too well organized and nature works together so beautifully. This is not an accident. But don’t ask me about the creator or supreme intelligent that is behind it all, I do not know, and I will never be capable of knowing.

Ah. The accident is about to have an accident.

Wouldn’t it be strange for an accidental universe with no purpose to end up resulting in beings who are so obsessed with finding purpose?

Paraphrase of a quote, that I can’t remember the source of.

Seriously, Binkley. Don’t voice your view on things and get mad when others voice theirs. Oliver’s got as much right to his opinion as you have to yours, and you started it.

If this world was designed, it’s a petri dish experiment headed for the autoclave.

Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn had this exact same argument…

I’m writing a screenplay to prove, beyond a reasonable doubt, that God exists; but this strip illustrates why it is unlikely to be produced – too controversial.

I’m okay with the notion that an intelligence created the universe. But the nest question is, what created that intelligence? And so on. Hall of mirrors.

The conservative says, “It is.” The progressive says, “What if.”

It is totally possible to accept with equanimity the ideas of God and science. I never had any problem with that, and I was raised by conservative Christians. Of course, now I identify as a progressive (leaning toward liberal) Christian.

The notion that science and religion are incompatible is ridiculous. Many scientists are believers, and plenty of believers are intellectually curious.

My best proof for the existence of deity:

How much empirical evidence does it take to reach a conclusion? Occam’s razor should help here.

How many religions are there? In all of human history, every culture has produced at least one religion. If there are any exceptions that I am unaware of, they will not negate the overwhelming preponderance of positive evidence.

Humanity has always been searching for something greater than itself to put faith in. Even those that claim to be atheists defend their views with religious fervor. To believe that “science” is the answer is also faith.

Note that not all faith is “blind faith”, but rather “informed faith”. Such is anyone who has questioned assumptions and found them to be true.

This massive pile of anecdotal evidence tells us there must be something or someone greater than humanity!