Roger Ebert and others question Johnny Hart's latest B.C. comic(calls Darwin stupid)

Poynter ^ | 05/01/05 | Poynter

[wideawake]

Darwin was good at spinning idle theories and playing guessing games - but it was a devout Augistinian monk who used hard scientific experiment to discover genetics.

Gregor Mendel didn't believe his ancestors were great apes - but he discovered the laws of heredity.

[Sybeck1]

Team America 1 star


Frenzied 911 4 stars

nuff said!

[PatrickHenry]

They're conflating "Christianity" with "creationism" again ...

AAARRRRGGGHHHH!!!!!

[Verginius Rufus]

OK, so he calls Charles Darwin stupid. So what. As long he doesn't go after Erasmus Darwin.

The strip in question doesn't actually say that Darwin was stupid, but why quibble?

[Borges]

Speaking of which, have you seen Criterion's reissue of The Passion of Joan of Arc? - expensive, but worth every penny.

I own it. That one has been out for a while. The Dreyer Box set they put out later is great too. As much as he tried Ingmar Bergman never quite topped Dryer's scant few features. 'Day of Wrath' seems to have been the inspiration for The Crucible and is clearly superior.

[LibWhacker]

Anyone who says all Christians are stupid and uneducated is . . . well . . . stupid and uneducated! :-)

[Stonewall Jackson]

Thought you'd enjoy this.

[Dataman]

Looks like Johnny Hart's science education is lacking.

Looks like frevos have no sense of humor or shame.

Do you realize what you just wrote? Johnny Hart is stupid for calling Darwin stupid?

I won't venture an opinion on what that says about you.

[Skooz]

Not really. Mostly just sigh in exasperation.

Well, you just need to come to grips with the fact that not everyone shares your towering intellect and infinite knowledge of every subject in the universe.

I did. And I am exasperated far less often, now.

[Blue Scourge]

Roger Egbert commenting on Christianity vs. Darwinism is like Hillary Duff commenting on Quantum mechanics.

[HereInTheHeartland]

Will Ebert also complain about the rabid, almost weekly anti-Bush strips from Doonesbury?
The BC strips get their message across in an understated, quirky way when they have a political topic.
I think it's great to see BC do this. If he did it weekly and had the personal insults like Doonesbury, then I would have a problem with it.

[LibWhacker]

Roger had it wrong, didn't he? Hart was just making a harmless little silly joke. I see it as being nothing more than that.

[pookie18]

Thanks...picked it up a bit earlier to rerun in Today's Toons 5/4/05.

[TFMcGuire]

Difference between evoloution and a fairy tale---5 billion years.

[TFMcGuire]

Don't hold your breath.

Aren't ad hominem attacks fun?

Don't have to answer the facts!

[TFMcGuire]

Easy concllusion---So does God!

[general_re]

Do you realize what you just wrote? Johnny Hart is stupid for calling Darwin stupid?

"Your education is a bit lacking" is the same as "You're stupid"?

LOL.

[kabar]

Darwin was good at spinning idle theories and playing guessing games - but it was a devout Augistinian monk who used hard scientific experiment to discover genetics.

Have you read Origin of the Species? It is a scholarly piece of work well footnoted, illustrated, and documented. Darwin has had a profound influence on science and natural history. He founded a new branch of science, evolutionary biology and had an impact on sociology.

Darwin's Influence on Modern Thought by Ernst Mayr Darwin is buried next to Sir Issac Newton in Westminster Abbey and rightfully so. He was a towering figure of the nineteenth century.

[k2blader]

I like it!

BTW, I've never understood why some people are so committed to believing their ancestors were monkeys.

[rcocean]

OMG!

Someone making fun of Darwin????

And Roger Ebert - Nobel Prize winning scientist and movie critic- doesn't like it?!

I'm going to write my newspaper. We can't allow this kind of blasphemy.

Chant along with Roger -

"Darwin is my shephard/I shall not want/For he the way the truth and the light/amen."