'BC' Comic disses Darwin

[Hutch]

Don't know how many others caught this, but the Sunday "BC" comic was this one , which takes a very anti-Darwin/anti-Evolution view.

Reason I put it here instead of another section of the Forum is that the comic's writer, Johnny Hart, has never made a secret of his Christian leanings and has often found ways to weave it into his comic (after all, his leading character is named Peter). But he has seldom been as blantently obvious as this.

Anyone else see this? Comments?

 

[Upchurch]

Don't know how many others caught this, but the Sunday "BC" comic was this one , which takes a very anti-Darwin/anti-Evolution view.

I hadn't seen this one, but This isn't the first time Hart has beend iscussed on this board. You're right, though, this is unusally over the top.

 

[davefoc]

I liked the comic strip. I think you can take the strip two ways. One is that it ridicules and disparages the idea of evolution and the other is that it just makes a joke about the truth of evolution. The latter is the way I choose to take it and I don't mind that Hart may have intended the former.

 

[hgc]

I liked the comic strip. I think you can take the strip two ways. One is that it ridicules and disparages the idea of evolution and the other is that it just makes a joke about the truth of evolution. The latter is the way I choose to take it and I don't mind that Hart may have intended the former.

Except for the contention that Charlie D sacrificed his Christianity. It's the No True Christian falacy. I guess Johnny H has a direct line to God, telling him which of the true believers are really true.

 

[Zep]

It's totally dreadful poetry too.

 

[Mercutio]

I used to love B.C. when I was a kid. I don't recall such messages back then. Has he changed? Is it the same guy writing?

(and yeah, even my poetry is better than that. Where can I get that gig?)

 

[Garrette]

I used to love BC as a kid, too. I think the writer now is the original author's son. That's just memory talking, though, so I could be wrong.

I, too, thought this one could be unintentionally taken as a friendly joke, though I've no doubt the intention was to disparage evolution.

BC is frequently more blatant than this, though this is the first I can remember of him dealing with a specific scientific idea. Usually he just proselytizes.

 

[Pahansiri]

Don't know how many others caught this, but the Sunday "BC" comic was this one , which takes a very anti-Darwin/anti-Evolution view.

Reason I put it here instead of another section of the Forum is that the comic's writer, Johnny Hart, has never made a secret of his Christian leanings and has often found ways to weave it into his comic (after all, his leading character is named Peter). But he has seldom been as blantently obvious as this.

Anyone else see this? Comments?

Some may want to drop Johnny Hart an e-mail telling monkeys are not apes.

 

[CFLarsen]

His pun is factually wrong.

Darwin didn't claim that we descended from monkeys. We have common ancestors.

I suspect that Hart is aware of that.

 

[Ipecac]

It's still the original Johnny Hart. He had a big conversion some time ago and was born again. So now he pushes Christianity and some of its more inane ideas in the strip.

 

[LW]

Darwin didn't claim that we descended from monkeys. We have common ancestors.

But then again, if the latest common ancestor of humans and modern monkeys was still alive, the odds are that we would call it "a monkey".

 

[Odin]

But then again, if the latest common ancestor of humans and modern monkeys was still alive, the odds are that we would call it "a monkey".

yes, but humans could not be classified as monkeys, they could arguably be classified as apes.

 

[Pahansiri]

His pun is factually wrong.

Darwin didn't claim that we descended from monkeys. We have common ancestors.

I suspect that Hart is aware of that.

Hello CFL
We have common ancestors with apes, not monkeys.

 

[Darat]

Hello CFL
We have common ancestors with apes, not monkeys.

Er no... Don't forget we have a common ancestor with apes, crocodiles and the tapeworm... in fact I believe the current evidence is that pretty much everything (we know) shares a common ancestor, some are just more ancestral then others!

 

[Marquis de Carabas]

You all share a common ancestor with me, lucky bastards. You're still not getting in my will.

 

[jmercer]

You all share a common ancestor with me, lucky bastards. You're still not getting in my will.

Where there's a will, there's a way, as the rich widow said...

 

[Pahansiri]

Er no... Don't forget we have a common ancestor with apes, crocodiles and the tapeworm... in fact I believe the current evidence is that pretty much everything (we know) shares a common ancestor, some are just more ancestral then others!

Yes, when we date back "all the way" that is the case. But here you would not call a dog the same as a chicken would you?

The fact is we are comrpised of the very same elaments as everything, monkey, tree, rock and sun. But when Someone says we did not evolve from monkeys he is right, nor did we from frogs or dogs but from a branch of apes.

I understand what you are saying but that is splitting hairs and well I am bald.

 

[Brown]

Bad poetry.

No wit.

Factually inaccurate.

Scientifically ignorant.

Religiously bigoted.

And for that matter, the artwork sucks, too.

The only thing funny about this comic is that the author meant for it to be taken as a serious commentary on science and upon Darwin's motives.

 

[hgc]

Hello CFL
We have common ancestors with apes, not monkeys.

The difference between our relation to apes and our relation to monkeys is only a matter of degree. Ditto our relation to bay scallops and Tasmanian devils.

 

[TragicMonkey]

I don't see why everyone's so anxious to distance themselves from the monkeys.

Monkeys rock!!!!

Damn dirty apes!