Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for January 17, 2015
Transcript:
Calvin: "When I grow up, I'm going to be a scientist" Calvin: "I'll dedicate my career to the proposition that man can reshape the universe according to his own whims" Calvin: "I'll probably go into genetic engineering and create new life forms" Hobbes: "You want to play god?" Calvin: "Not exactly. God never bothered to patent his stuff"
BE THIS GUY about 10 years ago
Spoken like the son of a patent attorney.
rentier about 10 years ago
Leave these matters better God, Calvin!!
Wasbluskies about 10 years ago
As I recall, most failures were due to weather, not critters.
Hobbes Premium Member about 10 years ago
Calvin’s conversation is going downhill fast.
Click here (or stretch image): Peanuts (August 4, 1967)Click here: Calvin and Hobbes (October 16, 1993)tirnaaisling about 10 years ago
Calvin is gonna be a Monsanto drone :-(
jbmlaw01 about 10 years ago
Think you guys are missing Nab’s point – the leftist dire forecasts, here re GMOs, were wrong as always.
sunchaunzo about 10 years ago
Has kind of a Star Trek/Terminator/Supernatural flavor to it!
stamps about 10 years ago
WRONG AGAIN!!! crop failure due to pestilence has all but disappeared.
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member about 10 years ago
On the one hand, Calvin is right in the last panel. On the other hand, I don’t think God is interested in royalties. Or in royalty.
zeexenon about 10 years ago
Want to smash into something at high speed, scientist? Use CERN’s LHC.
GrimmaTheNome about 10 years ago
Calvin and Hobbes seem to have a very odd idea of what it means to be an actual scientist.
ACTIVIST1234 about 10 years ago
Creation in the hands of Calvin? Or in the hands of similarly positioned scientists? Nope— I’ll take either God or random “fate”!
Mike Parsons Premium Member about 10 years ago
Now why do you suppose God didn’t bother to patent human DNA?
ChessPirate about 10 years ago
Come on, guys! You have to admit Nab is entertaining, especially when he’s blaming many of the ills of the northwest on marijuana, very funny stuff! :-)
neverenoughgold about 10 years ago
I still have the sled I had when I was little. I fabricated a padded box like seat for our oldest daughter when she was very young, so we could place her in the seat and pull her around in the snow!.I never understood why her mother wouldn’t let me put her in the thing and let her slide down a local hill… alone!(snerk)
JP Steve Premium Member about 10 years ago
I’ve known at least one genetic engineer who thought he was God…
Hobbes Premium Member about 10 years ago
Night-Gaunt49 said: “God” is random fate.Is that why people say, “Oh my God” when something random happens?There are some who would say that they used to think that God was nothing but random fate, until they had a chance encounter with God.
Number Three about 10 years ago
I have to hand it to Calvin. Very few kids his age don’t have huge ambitions to make the world a… (cough) better place.
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DannyDuck about 10 years ago
the names Calvin and Hobbs actually represent two prominent theologians of yesteryear.
kaystari Premium Member about 10 years ago
God did parent, 99% of His kids refused to listen, then ran away “from home” (not heaven, but His authority) as rebellious teenagers. He’s been trying to get them to come home ever since.
WilliamBill almost 10 years ago
“Heck is where people go when they don’t believe in Gosh!”