Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 02, 2020

Good for the whales, but surprising that the (legendary) greatest act of genocide — killing all the men, women [including pregnant women and their precious unborn fetuses] and actually born children — makes such a popular children’s story.

Mysterious ways, and all that.

I am impressed by how all those penguins managed to waddle all the way from Antartica and he had room for the elephants but not the wooly mammoths or unicorns*

Also impressive is how god managed to squeeze more H2O out of the atmosphere to make it rain for 40 days and 40 nights and cover the entire earth, though 40 days and 40 nights of stead rain would not actually cover the entire earth. Nor is there enough water, in any form, to do that.

*And YES! UNICORNS are mentioned in the King James Version of the Bible! Numbers 23:22 & 24:8, Deut 33:17; Job 39:9-10; Psalm 29:6 & 92:10

“Unfortunately, The Great Flood was followed 40 days later by “The Great Flush”.

Its just global warming, nothing to worry about

Actually scientist believe that a long time go the Earth really was a true water world. Over billions of years we’ve lost a lot of water

Thanl\k you. And who brought the mosquitos on board??

Penguins can swim so they could have survived on their own without Noah’s help.

There goes the neighborhood.

I like the ad for the new ark. 4 giraffes, mother, father and kids are marveling at it. According to the story, only 2 of them will get to go on the ark. Guess what happens to the other two?

It could not be more cruel if done deliberately.

Long enough to accept the bounty and begin a new life cycle, short enough all the new life will die stillborn.

The earth needs to heal, and we are the virus. Our virus is her vaccine. It’s targeted at the no-longer-productive, (Which includes me, at 75) which is the group that uses the largest share of medical resources. It also is weeding out some of the stupid, who have corona parties in which the whole neighborhood goes out to barbecue and dance. As a race, this bug is making us stronger. That party sounds like fun, but we geezers have a better chance of surviving this if we stay home and isolate until they have a viable vaccine with a very high success rate.

Check out Jordan Peterson’s take on this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNjbasba-Qw

It all depends on perspective. The sinking of the Titanic was an amazing miracle to the lobsters in the kitchen.

It’s a cautionary tale for mankind. Then afterwards God made the rainbow as a promise that he wouldn’t do it again.

A new story arc?

John Prine: “I got kicked off Noah’s Ark. I turn my cheek to unkind remarks. There was two of everything, but one of me. And when the rains came tumbling down, I held my breath and I stood my ground. And I watched that ship go sailing out to sea.”

The flood story of Noah may be partially based in fact. Many cultures have similar stories. The Biblical myth is most likely based on a Sumerian myth of Gilgamesh.

The leading contender is that the story relates the events when global warming raised the level of the Mediterranean Sea so it spilled into the Black Sea about 8,000 years ago. That kind of event is big enough to be remembered in oral tradition. There is good scientific evidence that the event happened.

Another theory is that an asteroid impacted in the Indian Ocean and caused a tsunami. I kind of like this theory because it explains why cultures from Africa to Asia have such a myth. There isn’t a lot of evidence for this yet.

the math is wrong. if the world is 70-75% water covered then going to 100% would be an increase of just 25%

The miracle of the Bible is not in its historic or scientific accuracy; it is that it is still relevant after thousands of years.

The problem with the Bible is that there is just enough fact scattered around in it that it confuses the issue.

Actually, this is just a very humorous comic but it certainly exposed the termite effect of doubt on modern theology.

My take is that this particular story and all its relations are buried in all the philosophies and isms of history, yet are still at the center of our troubles. As the supposedly more highly developed offspring of those early thinkers, we might still be able to solve them, but it is going to take more objectivity and less emotion to do it. The problems we have are NOW!! If there is to be a future, it is time we get to work.

I don’t mind people claiming the Bible is just a collection of fables, myths, lies, whatever. Your brain, your opinion. What I mind, is your villification of those of us who believe God IS God, the Bible IS all true and live our lives that way. Your opinion is your opinion, until it says that I am not entitled to my opinion.

How did kangaroos get to/from the ark before air travel?

Nothing good lasts forever. Bad seems to hang right in there though.

Approximately 72,000 years ago the human race very nearly went extinct. Estimates range from about 40 breeding pairs to about 1,000 breeding pairs are responsible for all human life today. There’s some debate about the reason; pandemic, global cooling or a combination of factors, but a small area in central Africa became the last bastion of humanity. Much of the mythos about a garden of Eden (shared by every race) is believed to have come from that event.

The water we have on earth is all that is and ever has been and ever will be.

Thanks for all the fish…

Those here that question God’s creations of things like virus, snakes, disease, etc. should read Catch-22. (Everyone should, anyway.) There’s a section in there where Yossarian is arguing about God with his CO’s wife while they’re in bed. His commentary about pain is sensible, funny, and totally blasphemous. Teaser (from memory): Woman: “Pain is a way to warn us of dangers.” Y: “And who created the dangers?…why didn’t He put colored lights in our foreheads to warn us of dangers? Any jukebox mechanic worth his salt could have done that. Why couldn’t He?”

The sharks were very well fed for a brief time. Later, the water scavengers had a similar feast.

Those whales best move out. Noah had to do something with all that manure!

Hi, Mr. Whale? We’re sorry the first run through didn’t work out as planned. However, welcome to 2020…we may have some interesting things coming your way.

Out of curiosity, what would happen to all the planet’s aquatic ecosystems if you did and all that fresh water to the oceans?

@Davis D Danizier Bruh! You’re applying science & logic to a fairy tale book (the bible, little “b”). Religious nuts, conservatives, and racist MAGAs do not apply, much less bother to understand, science and logic. Their god (little “g”) is fina protect them by divine intervention so long as they believe….and fork over all their money and self-thought (baaaa! baaaa!)

“Cats and rats and elephants, but I’m so forlorn…”

Mr 3D makes excellent points. In addition to which, all that fresh water would have been lethal for salt-water creatures.

Not to mention the insects—roughly 400,000 species of beetles, 22,000 species of ants, at least a million species of gall flies (midges), 40,000 species of heteroptera (“bugs”), and so on.

Apologists make all sorts of excuses for the implausibilities of the story, most (maybe all) of which require rewriting the literal words of God as told to Moses.

I kind of hope I’m wrong that God doesnt exist because if he does and he decided that i should be given a disease that takes away 90% of my life but won’t kill me, then if i meet him after i die….the first thing I’m going to do is punch him right in the mouth. After that I’ve got some pretty pointy questions for him. Many of which were voiced here.

That just gave their food more room to hide. I’m surprised they didn’t starve out.

I’m amazed that, as of 2 PM Central Time, now up to 144 comments, not a one of them has thrown in a mention of “How long can you tread water?”

This is probably the greatest comedy routine of all time: https://youtu.be/bputeFGXEjA

I like this story ark.

The story of Noah is apocryphal, not literal.

. . . and I can finally hear . . .

What? Noah forgot to take any Whales or Dolphins with him?

It’s a good thing they can Swim really well.

Too bad about the Unicorns though.

Jeremiah must’ve been a belated protest to their habitat getting smaller.

So…was the Deluge divided up into saltwater rain that fell into the oceans and freshwater that fell inland, while the two stayed separate after the whole world flooded?

good to see everyone take a simple comic strip and then vent their various and sundry religious/anti-religious views. Y’all need to get a life.

Sounds like a baby boom.

there’s some nasty shit in the bible, especially the Old Testament. I’m happy to live without it…