Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 22, 2015

Pig and Homer Simpson go to the same church.

I love it when Rat isn’t around to ruin things.

To answer Goat’s poll myself: creationism, but evolution is a theory. (Personal opinion, not Mormonism’s true say… not that I’m aware of.)

That word “believe” turns this into a faith based poll. I’d more accurately say that I’ve seen valid, documented scientific evidence for evolution. Same can’t be said about creationism, Ken Ham and his idiot ilk nonwithstanding.

Oh boy, here we go. The sundry aspects of evolution are just as well established as fact as is the planet Jupiter, and the “Theory of Evolution” gives order and further explanation to those facts just like the “Theory of Gravity” give explanation to Jupiter staying in its orbit around the Sun. There are aspects of evolution, and of Jupiter, that are still not fully understood, but more is being discovered by science all the time. Creationism, OTOH, is just as utterly self-evident as the idea that the world is flat, and is about as useful. But in any case, a person can’t be reasoned out of something they weren’t reasoned into.

As a Christian who is scientifically literate, of course I accept the reality that the physical evidence around us tells us of a universe that is billions of years old and life that is millions of years old, of dinosaurs and evolution.

But given that the Bible is a history of humans’ interaction with God rather than a book of how stuff works, therefore I don’t see the fact that it’s figurative rather than literal as a particularly big issue.

In my experience, those who disbelieve most strongly in evolution are the ones who have never tried it.

Creationism must be right, bevause my imaginary friend says so, despite the evidence, Wooooo there’s jesus on a dinosaur.

What a bunch of bronze age idiots are posting here.

Stephen hawking says he has solved the god mystery..he is a genius but he can not walk and chew gum at the same time….

I could take a stand with Pig today. I never met a donut I didn’t like [sole exception being if coconut is involved].Or, as for me, evolution and (religious) faith have long since been found quite compatible….

Evolution trumps Creationism, Donuts trump Everything!

But there must be more than just a ring of fried dough to existence, and this is absolutely the fact of it; the middle of the dough has been deliberately removed so that the remainder is not half baked.

We have indisputable and unquestionable proof that the Bible is the ultimate source of truth and wisdom, because the Bible says so, and it is the ultimate source of truth and wisdom.

I am with drjinxsax, cdward, and Johnathan Hughes – but my first thought was — Godd question, Pig!

You’d be surprised, Pig. And while I do like donuts, I’d vote against them if they were bad.

Here’s a question for evolutionists: Why are there only TWO sexes (female and male) instead of three, or four, or more??

mathematically the only thing that comes fromj nothing Is nothing..zero times one is zero..zero times ten is nothing…zero times million is nothing..zero times trillion is nothing….even one has to be created before it can be multiplied or even counted….l

Doughnuts are Holey!

Another vote for evolution. The bible is a great place for spiritual inspiration but I don’t buy all the magic.

LOL! There was no doubt in my mind, as soon as I read this comic, that this would instantly turn into a debate forum. Me…I’m with Pig. As if anybody’s going to change their beliefs here in the comic comments. LOL!!!

those who need a heaven…hope they get it, I myself love the Emerald City along with OZ.

Neither. I believe in bacon!

Sigh. I knew the crocs were too good to be true.

@Gaijinrabbit—how did the genes & the DNA start?

@jessegooddoggy—Larry and the Zeeba Zeeba Eata crew are too true to be any good!

Mmmmm…donuts!

I think Pig is channeling Montaigne.

isn’t it always fun to read the comments of people who are in disagreement and see which one resorts to name calling soonest, acting as if that in itself is a plus for their side – it seems we as humankind have ‘evolved’ into thinking that one wins if one can come up with the best put down of the other side – what a lovely world of make believe we create in our ‘proving’ ourselves ‘superior’ to everyone else

0 × 1=0

Mea culpa, I didn’t plow through the last 45 comments before mine, but I have a couple of observations, nonetheless.1. Many Christians who don’t accept evolution fear that they will go to hell if they don’t believe everything in the Bible, literally. They are scared to view anything in it as figurative, or as the ancients’ impressions of a person’s relationship to a higher power. I, myself, believe in a spiritual force, since (in my opinion) have experienced it. I try to keep up my Christian outlook, because I believe in dancing with the one that brung ya.2. According to what I was taught in graduate school, a theory is never “proven.” Instead, the null hypothesis is supported or not within a previously determined number of degrees of freedom. If someone says that something is “proven,” he or she is not speaking as a scientist.

7:30 a.m., and already a ton of comments. I won’t add to the melee. Believe what you will; I believe I’ll have another cup of coffee.

+1

i believe in the holy nature of ice cream, so wonderful and ephemeral. i also think pastis enjoys provoking this sort of thing or why put it out there

I don’t care about all of this.I just want to know where the crocs went!!

let’s just go with donuts, ok?

Sure are a lot of people around here that can ruin the enjoyment of a good comic strip.

Pig is the truly wise one here.

Put me down for doughnuts too, Goat!

xxx

“Gravity is a theory, too… why not find a nice, tall tower and test it out?”

Apparently, you aren’t aware that there are actually several mainstream scientific theories about gravity. There is no “scientific concensus” about what gravity actually is, nor how it actually works. (There is the descriptive “Law of Gravity” — but, that doesn’t tell us what it is, nor how it works.) Gravity remains one of the great mysteries of science. ~FWIW, I happen to be in the science camp on evolution vs. creationism. Your snarky, ill-informed commentary does not help the “science” side, that you purport to support.

Just out of curiosity, why couldn’t a supreme being use evolution to create? As a programmer, I hardly ever start from scratch to make a new program. I always fine one somewhat close and tweak it until it is what I want. Why wouldn’t a God do something similar?

Rather than add another 100 comments or so to this thread, hashing it all out again, lets simply revisit this conversation that covers most of the ideas that are bound to come up here.http://www.gocomics.com/bc/2014/05/05

tough call…since the pearls creator seems to unevolved

Little did we know that one mere comic strip can inflict such a response.

Donuts are good.

Especially chocolate ones.

That is all.

Gabriel Iglesias did one of the best routines on donuts on one of his TV specials. Donuts and cops, the whole thing.

It always amazes me that both priests and atheists can be so certain of the existence of God. I’m an agnostic. The universe is innocent until proven guilty. Solomon Short

Atheists aren’t sure there isn’t a god. We just don’t believe there is. Big difference. Religious people are agnostic too, they just won’t admit it. No one really knows.

I knew someone would say what the believe and it would get into a comment mess.

I like donuts!

Pastis, the coward. He purposely created this mess, then he sits back and enjoys the back and forth. What fools you people are or do you just like being played? Is this ratings week or something? Pastis is the Dr. Oz of Comics. A quack.

apparently you do not perceive that this is not a scare tactic, simply a statement of fact.I’m still waiting for the evidence…

Anyone, with a modicum of reading comprehension ability, knows that you believed that there is only one theory of gravity — and that you could test it out, by dropping something off a “tall tower”. ~As for why you referred to it as “a theory and not as a law”, I surmise that it’s because: (a) you believed that there is only one theory of gravity; and (b) that you did not, and apparently still do not, know the difference between a scientific “Law” and a scientific “theory”. Hint “law” doesn’t mean what you think it means. ~If you want to serve the science-side in this (ultimately, pointless) debate: don’t comment.

As for your quotations, it is not known widely enough that lying creationists love to take things out of context, and/or present only part of a quote, to make it seem like it says the exact opposite of what it actually does say; that is how they end up with the farcical ploy of pretending that, say, Stephen Jay Gould opposed evolution.Fortunately, hardworking scientists have developed a vaccine for this: The Quote Mine Project.That’s right—creationists do this so often that it was felt necessary to gather all of their lies into one place for ease of reference.

You really should start listening to the truth before time is up.Still threatening me (and everyone else who disagrees with you with hell, eh?And I’m still asking you for evidence that it (or heaven) exists. I haven’t seen you present any yet. But I’ll wait…

i vote donuts

i know i do