Recent Comments

1. 12 days ago on Non Sequitur

   There’s a significant difference between belief in a universe that needs a creator and belief that this creator did it all for you. In the last 3000 or so years, we have learned a lot more about this universe. We have a good idea how old it is – 13.7 billion years – how big it is – there are more stars in the sky than there are grains of sand on all the beaches of the earth – and how long we have been here – about 200,000 years. To believe that this creator has a personal interest in our totally insignificant lives in this immense existence is, to me, completely illogical. And there is no evidence for for such a creator.

2. 15 days ago on Bloom County

   Sexing penguins (zoos have to do it so they know who’s who) requires taking blood and then looking at the chromosomes. There are no external sex variations to look for. And did you know that bird sex chromosomes work the opposite way to mammals. The females have the two different ones called ZW, the males are ZZ,

3. about 2 months ago on Non Sequitur

   The universe is 13.7 billion years old. There are more stars in it thanthere are grains of sand on all the beaches of this tiny insignificantspeck we call Earth, which has only existed for 4.5 billion years.Modern Humans have been here for about 200,000 years. Giventhese facts, belief in a personal god is completely irrational.

4. 3 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   Van Morrison, and he’s still singing!

5. 3 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I lived my first 25 years in Australia. I’ve killed spiders and snakes, never seen a shark. The biggest danger are the increasingly high summer temperatures. Go visit now before climate change makes it impossible to enjoy!

6. 3 months ago on Pearls Before Swine

   If you were offended by the Olympic celebration of Dionysus, the original bacchanalia, you were mislead by people who did not know Greek mythology. That was NOT a depiction of Da Vinci’s last supper, which was itself an interpretation – when were you last at an intimate dinner gathering where everybody sat on the one side of the table?

7. 3 months ago on Doonesbury

   From 1975 to 1977, I went through Afghanistan 5 times. Those were the days of the trans Asia coach tours (London to Kathmandu and back). I worked as a tour guide for one of the many companies offering those trips. Afghanistan was my favourite country – amazing things to see and do, good food and friendly people. Then politics intervened, the Russians invaded and it has been hell ever since.

8. 6 months ago on Bloom County

   Given all that, which is fantasy by the way, just how probable do you think it is that “something far, far more powerful and intelligent than humans, and with ultimate authority” would have done it all just so that it could monitor the lives of the sentient beings that came to exist on this one tiny infinitesimal speck in the huge space which is the universe some 13 billion years after it all began.

9. 8 months ago on Doonesbury

   The universe is 13.7 billion years old. There are more stars in it than there are grains of sand on all the beaches of this tiny insignificant speck we call Earth, which has only existed for 4.5 billion years. Modern Humans have been here for about 200,000 years. Given these facts, belief in a personal god is completely irrational.

10. 8 months ago on Bloom County

    The universe is 13.7 billion years old. There are more stars in it thanthere are grains of sand on all the beaches of this tiny insignificantspeck we call Earth, which has only existed for 4.5 billion years.Modern Humans have been here for about 200,000 years. Giventhese facts, belief in a personal god is completely irrational.