Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for March 19, 2010

Please don’t give the Creationists any more ideas.

Saturn is everybody’s favorite planet?

And why are Martians always anthropomorphic?

It’s the rings.

number9dream, I am impressed that that word (anthro etc etc) is part of your vocabulary….curiosity made me look that one up…..do you mean whey are martians bi peds with 2 arms and 2 eyes (human characteristics) or do you mean why do martians have a propensity to kill species that are unlike their own?….. but, saturn (everybody’s favorite!) is a great big gasbag without a surface to stand on ,anyway….

speaking of gasbags, ‘oh the humanity!”

Sounds like Ruben has been listening to “Coast to Coast”

As credible as any religion

Actually, it looks like Ruben has been reading Axe Cop…

And the father of bat boy, Ruben!

Say - remember sci fi comic books of the 1950’s that showed those pictures of Saturn floating in the Pacific ocean?

Because of its density?

Oh Well…

My favorite planet is that one that’s on the other side of the sun, traveling in the same orbit as Earth so you can’t see it. That’s my favorite planet. Yeah.

And then Brendan went on to become a climatologist working for the IPCC.

..as a Christian I should take offense to this,but I am too busy laughing…in my opinion,the Bible only remains relevant if it is the living breathing word of God…no lesson in it is etched in stone(well,except the 10 commandments,of course:-)but is meant to be a help in today’s world with today’s problems..The Bible is meant to be a social learning tool used to fight for justice,the weak(yes,and as well,the strong) to push mankind forward to be better in all ways.Faith and science,like the farmer and cowboy,should be friends…

…Thank God for Godman…

I distrust anyone named “Ruben.”

3hour, I agree with you part of the way, but not completely. Science and religion need not be antagonistic to one another, but they should stick to their respective spheres. Mixing the two leads to bad science and bad religion.

As a chronicle of history, the Bible is wildly inaccurate. As a science text, it’s worthless. It’s WORSE than worthless, in that adherance to Genesis accounts of cosmology is completely incompatible with a basic understanding of the universe, of Earth’s history, and the workings of life thereon.

The Dalai Lama was once asked what he would do if science proved that his beliefs were factually incorrect, and he said “I would change my beliefs.” Any other approach is tantamount to covering your ears and shouting “LA LA LA LA! I CAN’T HEAR YOU!”

commerce, I don’t have it in Coptic, but I have Catcher handy in English. Should I start with “start”, “missing”, or “everybody”?

TRUE FACT: In the “divinely inspired” King James translation of the Bible, if you count 46 words into Psalm 46, you arrive at the word “shake.” If you count 46 words from the end (leaving off the final “Selah”), you arrive at “spear.” The KJV text was finalized in 1610, when William Shakespeare was 46 years old. Coincidence? Or was God name-dropping His favorite playwright?

My favorite dinosaur was always the ankylosaurus. Is that weird?

I don’t know that I HAVE a favorite planet, but unless that’s where the ankylosaurs live it ain’t Saturn.

This doesn’t surprise me at all because I have always thought like an eight year old.

But why has it taken so long for this theory to finally be accepted? I just don’t understand it!

commerce, I got the joke, and I was playing along…

(The bit about Psalm 46 is absolutely true, though.)

This week’s cartoon is really stoopid. I can’t believe that it took him a week.

Actually, it only took him six days. On the seventh day, he rested. Yeah, that’s the ticket…

That first caveman looks like Rod Blagojevich with a beard.

And yes, I had to look up the spelling of his name.