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Ken Ham's comic Brontosaurus...?

BowlOfRed

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A recent B.C. comic referenced the coexistence of humans and dinosaurs, a Brontosaurus, and Ken Ham. ....I'm completely confused.

I know about the recent report on possibly returning Brontosaurus as a separate genus. I know the current B.C. author doesn't have the strong religious messages in the strip that Johnny Hart did. I know a bit about Ken Ham.

But otherwise, I got nothin' here. I can't tell what direction it's going in. Is this a dig at Ken Ham or a "high-five" to him? A light-hearted joke, or trying to push something?

Mainly, I didn't get it and wanted to share.
 
The first never happened, the second did!!! i.e. Ken Ham is wrong but Brontosaurus turned out to be right.
 
The link I have may not be valid after a few weeks. So the text is:
Panel 1 B.C.: Two things that we suspect never existed...
Panel 2 B.C.: Evidence of coexistence of dinosaur and man...
Panel 3 B.C.: And the Brontosaurus.
Panel 3 B.C. (now seen riding a Brontosaurus-ish animal): Eat your heart out, Ken Ham.
 
BowlOfRed said:
The link I have may not be valid after a few weeks. So the text is:
Panel 1 B.C.: Two things that we suspect never existed...
Panel 2 B.C.: Evidence of coexistence of dinosaur and man...
Panel 3 B.C.: And the Brontosaurus.
Panel 3 B.C. (now seen riding a Brontosaurus-ish animal): Eat your heart out, Ken Ham.
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Link worked fine - that's why I ninjaed and explained why before the post of yours. It's not a great joke, but it is clear!!!
 
It makes perfect sense! The last panel is saying "Here's evidence that dinosaur existed alongside man (because I'm riding one), and here's evidence of a brontosaurus (because I'm riding one!)" The Ham reference is saying he one-upped Ken Ham by "proving" what Ham never could.

It's a funny comedy joke, hahahahaha. ;)
 
So, the writer of BC used to be very deeply fundamentalist. The Easter strips were painful to read. Has that changed?
 
Ken ham is real. He is a world renowned moron,indeed he works hard,dawn to dusk,to lower the intellectual bar. What he does ,he does well. Few folk can be so consistently dumb,it is really hard to be so stupid.
Human-dino coexistence leaves me speechless. I really find it hard to described how dumb someone must be to think the Flintstones is on par with say Attenborough's excellent documentary on fossils.
Ham really thinks that human fossils are not found with t-rex because humans got to higher ground before god showered them with love uh sorry death.
If so they must have took their field systems,all irrigation channels,every bit of pottery etc oh and dug up all the human dead and dragged them along. They also took their city's.
I do know this thread is toung in cheek but we should be aware folk actually buy hams crap,and we need to refute it at every turn.
 
Loss Leader said:
So, the writer of BC used to be very deeply fundamentalist. The Easter strips were painful to read. Has that changed?
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Johnny Hart was the artist who drew the deeply "religious" BC strips after his re-conversion in 1984. He died in 2007. Since then, the strip is run by his daughter and grandsons, with a much less overtly preachy tone.
 
skeptichaggis said:
Ken ham is real. He is a world renowned moron,indeed he works hard,dawn to dusk,to lower the intellectual bar. What he does ,he does well. Few folk can be so consistently dumb,it is really hard to be so stupid.
Human-dino coexistence leaves me speechless. I really find it hard to described how dumb someone must be to think the Flintstones is on par with say Attenborough's excellent documentary on fossils.
Ham really thinks that human fossils are not found with t-rex because humans got to higher ground before god showered them with love uh sorry death.
If so they must have took their field systems,all irrigation channels,every bit of pottery etc oh and dug up all the human dead and dragged them along. They also took their city's.
I do know this thread is toung in cheek but we should be aware folk actually buy hams crap,and we need to refute it at every turn.
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I do know of Mr Ham - shoulda used some smilies!

IIRC he's Australia's most favourite export!
 
Vortigern99 said:
It makes perfect sense! The last panel is saying "Here's evidence that dinosaur existed alongside man (because I'm riding one), and here's evidence of a brontosaurus (because I'm riding one!)" The Ham reference is saying he one-upped Ken Ham by "proving" what Ham never could.
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It's been awhile since I've read B.C. One thing I do recall is that Hart liked self-reference but didn't give credit to anyone else. For example, the Beetle Bailey comic strip came out in 1950 well before B.C.'s appearance in 1958. General Halftrack's two secretaries seem to be the inspiration for the only two women in B.C. with one being very attractive and the other less so. The less attractive character is more highly exaggerated in B.C. but the attractive woman seems to be a carbon-copy of Miss Buxley.

It probably annoyed Hart that his strip showing humans cavorting with dinosaurs came out two years before the much more famous Flintstones cartoon in 1960. Of course this was well after the movie, One Million B.C., depicted the same thing in 1940.

I think the strip is simply pointing out that B.C. was well ahead of the Creation Museum. In other words, imagine for a second that there actually is some evidence of humans with dinosaurs then it is clearly self-congratulatory in saying that he had the idea before Ken Ham. This interpretation is seconded by the reference to brontosaurus. Note again though that Hart would not give credit to Sinclair for popularizing the brontosaurus logo going all the way back to 1932. I think there is no reason to look for a deep meaning since B.C. would never be accused of being too intellectual or even subtle.
 
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