Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for April 20, 2014

The visible universe is about the equivalent of foam on the surface of the ocean…

Okay, that one, I have to agree with Brewster. I love dark chocolate…

Dark matter is all the cloaked aliens and their planets hiding from us. Or maybe it’s the Great and Powerful God behind a curtain.

Chris, nobody ignored the man behind the curtain in the movie I saw………And if there was any evidence at all of the supernatural, nobody would ignore that either….Why do Bible thumpers insist that their god doesn’t have the power to pull off creation the way the evidence shows intelligent people how it happened?…. Why do they keep insisting that their god has so little imagination that all he did was snap his fingers? Their god sounds kinda lazy and boring to me…..

All but one has an intelligent answer and even he like all the rest have to much down time. Just a momentary laps on my part. :)

I think that whenever a sentient species somewhere gets close to having a “grand theory of everything,” the universe responds by becoming more complex and giving us new puzzles to investigate.

@Clark Kent: I am impressed by your profession of faith. I bet you make a really good evangelist for your religion.

Funny how the only intelligent comments here come from the bible thumpers! Who ever said God just snapped his fingers? How can you believe in something like dark matter/energy that you can’t see or prove? I’ll take God over “arbitrary”!

Your non-belief is a religion. A destructive one at that.

And the 5% on that pie chart probably indicates also what we REALLY know about the universe and its workings.

Brewster is definitely onto something – Dark Chocolate Rules!!!

So is it that 95% of happiness is dark chocolate or the chocolate is 95% dark?

Normally, I agree with you; however, on 1:, I’ll have to see your proof. Remembering that the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.Proceed, Clark.

Dark chocolate definitely contributes to my mass (yum)!

Well played! If not being able to provide a disproof of something means that we have to believe in that something, even though there is no evidence for it, then we also have to believe in leprechauns, unicorns, dragons, fairies, pixies, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster, as well as heaven, hell, and god.

Those who require proof of God in time, matter and energy can never be satisfied.-God transcends time, matter, and energy, and transcends comprehension (or proof). That’s what faith is for.

Every religion is a belief system. Not every belief system is a religion.

To those who believe, no proof is necessary. To those who do not believe, no proof is possible.

Brewster you are definitely the man.

@Puddleglum, et al

You’re absolutely right about “atheists” having their own religion, worldview, ethical system, etc. and it all boils down to “faith” (in each and every case), even for those who decide to place their trust in scientific theories… which today’s strip beautifully illustrates. Likewise, Packratjohn provides an interesting case study, since he argues that his worldview is not religious (in the classical use of the word) but recognizes the irony in the fact that he is actually “preaching” his a-theological world view. All human beings place their faith in something.

I’m sorry, because some guy posts a “mathematical” formula that means < 0 to me doesn’t mean it’s true. So, until we got scanning electron microscopes there were no atoms because no evidence of them? I am interested in archaeology and that tends to be axiomatic. All you see is what survived and what you’ve uncovered. You don’t know what was destroyed and what’s still in the ground.

snicker Looks like normal needs redefined AGAIN.

Dark matter and energy are the other 95 dimensions, just ask Ming! Yes I know the number is arbitrary.

And religious folks aren’t guilty of that too? Give me a break.