ID Mallard Fillmore

8/25/06 | Bruce Tinsley

[Tim Long]

Mallard Fillmore rocks metal. Tinsley doesn't seem to understand intelligent design judging by this strip, though. Still, not bad.

[Tim Long]

If you are a Young-Earth Creationist, accept the water canopy theory, do not accept speciation (i.e. Ken Ham’s “kinds”), and want on my Six Days Ping List, Freepmail me.

[Vaquero]

PING

[lesser_satan]

What the heck is the "water canopy theory"?

[SJSAMPLE]

"Hey, Orel. What answer did you get for question #3 on the science test?"

"Jesus."

[Names Ash Housewares]

[orionblamblam]

[Senator Bedfellow]

What the heck is the "water canopy theory"?

It's a maneuver sometimes employed by YEC theorists. Kent Hovind famously employed this move to take the gold medal in the 1988 Mental Gymnastics competition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapor_canopy

[orionblamblam]

> What the heck is the "water canopy theory"?

My understanding:
1) Use to be a shell of water suspended above the atmosphere, covering the entire planet.
2) It prevented cosmic rays from getting to the ground, thus all the Old Geezers From Genesis lived hundreds of years.
3) Then God got all cheesed off, poked a hole in the canopy and all the water fell down, flooding the planet.

Silly? You bet. Still, it's the best the YECers can do to explain how the Genesis myth is actually RealFact.

[Doctor Stochastic]

What the heck is the "water canopy theory"?

It's just another example of Raleigh-Taylor instability.

[Doohickey]

Sort of like an upstairs waterbed that springs a leak?

[lesser_satan]

Ahh, the old Raleigh-Taylor instability. I suspected as much. That explains a lot.

[orionblamblam]

More like an upstairs waterbed that the household psycho brat puts a big firecracker on and explodes.

[PatrickHenry]

Fool! The "water canopy" is right there in Genesis:

1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

1:7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

[OPS4]

The theory of Aquaman in episode 1.

[orionblamblam]

1:7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

Meh.

[PatrickHenry]

You poor lost baby! If you don't believe in the water canopy, when it's so clearly described, then what prevents you from being a serial killer? One day you will learn the truth, but it will be too late. I laugh at your fate!

[quark]

Which is the bad hairpiece and which is the transitional fossil?

[bpjam]

All I know for sure that is my ancestors were plenty stupid but they weren't apes. If I were previously an ape, I'm sure I would have been told something by now since my family can't keep a secret to save their lives.

I guess if evolution is try then reincarnation must be impossible. This is going to be quite a shock to St. Thomas Aquinas (wherever he is today).

[orionblamblam]

> If you don't believe in the water canopy, when it's so clearly described, then what prevents you from being a serial killer?

I would laugh, but... as you know, there's people that nutty.