Science and Religion Alone in a Dark Room.

SadPig · 1 year

I WISH that switching on the lights would convince people that their belief is crap. I think it is more likely that the last retort of religion would be "Dragons are invisible, you cretin!".

Waybye · 1 year

In the final panel, religion should say 'They're invisible.' Only then would it be a true representation.

aero_eng · 1 year

Where is the backpack?

Aurlon · 1 year

Relevant:

http://www.users.qwest.net/~jcosta3/article_dragon.htm

OriginalBrand · 1 year

This shit is ancient for your information. I'll contribute to the beginning of a string of repost comments.

roscos · 1 year

i didnt know that the light from a flashlight could kill a dragon

overthrow23 · 1 year

"The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir."

Carl Sagan

krazbobeans · 1 year

Yea I know religion is bullshit but it's not THIS black and white.

ivorjawa · 1 year

Oh, man. I'd give just about anything for a few minutes in a dark room with Religion.

whap whap whap thud

stoptherobots · 1 year

This is just like the introduction I did for my science classes during my student teaching, I had a whole speech about how science is like a flashlight in a dark room. I made the room as dark as possible, and I would ask questions like "Where did the moon come from" or "What is lightning" and shine my flashlight on posters that had the answers. Where before there was darkness and uncertainty, now there is light and knowledge.

It's was one of my favorite things to do, and I look forward to doing it when I get my own classroom.

bloog · 1 year

Dragons don't have to be scaly flying things.
Think about it... This room is dragons. Everything is dragons!
You can't tell me how I have to interpret dragons.

wingspantt · 1 year

The only problem with this analogy is that there is no light to turn on to prove God doesn't exist.

isacdan · 1 year

Is is ok if I just repost this next week and get a shitton of karma too?

n4rc071x · 1 year

This is the 100th repost and it still made me smile.

Rads · 1 year

religion seems like a real dick

theturbolemming · 1 year

An entertaining comic, no doubt, but I think there is an extremely importance clarification to be made: religion is rarely used as an intentional way to deceive people; at least, I'd argue that's the case with most large organized religions.

Spiff90 · 1 year

Don't know the original source, just found it floating around on the interwebs.

conorreid · 1 year

I want to upvote this a million times.

EncasedMeats · 1 year

Then Science beats Religion to death with the flashlight, cannibalizes him, but still inevitably starves in the sealed chamber.

MightyLucifer · 1 year

The Dragons probably don't have time for Religions crap.

I know I don't.

amgtfy · 1 year

To be accurate, the guy on the right should be wearing a pink sleeping mask.

4InchesOfury · 1 year

Next frame "Oh poo you made the dragons disappear with your light. Turn it off and they'll come back!

TheWolfofMibu · 1 year

Obviously the dragons are invisible.

[deleted] · 1 year

This is so full of awesome. Upvoted.

Dragons work in mysterious ways.

Nardageddon · 1 year

"They're invisible dragons."

original_4degrees · 1 year

oohhh religion IS the dragon.

skripklubbin · 1 year

It aint no sin to go to the skripkluub

powercow · 1 year

if you dont see the dragons, you are not believing hard enough, believe HARDER DAMN YOU!

ArchAuthor · 1 year

Wow. Thank you for finding this. This was the comic that convinced me that becoming an atheist was the right decision.

I haven't seen this in ages.

pgomez · 1 year

ENHANCE

DrPeppehr · 1 year

This is the easiest way to explain the conflict between religion and science to people. I will definitely show this to people.

corgonin · 1 year

I think it would've been better if the last panel had some kind of twist, like the religion guy jacking off with a dildo or something.

Willis13579 · 1 year

Religion and science- mutually exclusive on r/atheism.

Margot23 · 1 year

Only we don't say "haha, are you serious? That's bullshit!" We say "well, there isn't actually any evidence of dragons!"

asshaberdashery · 1 year

Much as I love science, and am a fan of atheism, I feel obligated to point out that there is no conceivable way for science to disprove the existence of hell, or demons, or ghosts etc. It can deal with superstitions, and belief in things that can influence the world, (though a thorough understanding of statistics may be required), but it can never touch the core issues.

Also, though this may not be the time or the place, I'd like to suggest a little bit more empathy for the non-atheists of the world - you'll never get people to leave the comfortable majority camp by mocking and disrespecting people.

scottlawson · 1 year

Where are the dragons?

They are invisible

But I don't detect any heat signatures

Thats because they are cold blooded

That doesnt make any sense

It makes enough sense

(gun shots)

triel187 · 1 year

Religious person: "Well, actually the dragons just left. You see, they were here just a second before you turned on the light. The left, so they could teach you about faith.

Science person: "That's cool, but they left zero evidence of their being here?"

Religious person: "Exactly"

Science person: "Lack of evidence is not evidence."

Religious person: "I just spoke to the dragons and they are willing to come back if you turn off the light.............."

wckb · 1 year

DUDE, i know how to reap INFINITE KARMA.

Step one, make a novelty account.

Step two, every day post a different atheist picture than has been on the internet for 800 years, and has been posted on /r/atheism 100 million times.

step three, teach monkeys to joust.

step four, KARMAAAAAAAAAAAa

NobodyFsWithTheJesus · 1 year

I get it, the light is symbolic of common sense.

Jenu1 · 1 year

but...dragons are awesome.... :(

molierecoder777 · 1 year

First rule of religion : never talk about the origins of the dragons.

nauscopy · 1 year

I want to add one more panel where religion says, "You just lack the faith to see the dragons that I know are there."

[deleted] · 1 year

Instead of "Fuck you", religion should be saying "the dragons are metaphorical" in the last panel.

[deleted] · 1 year

This wouldn't change shit for the same reason the rapture not happening in 1994 didn't stop that crazy radio preacher from predicting it AGAIN for May 21, 2011... Today's theist wouldn't say "fuck you" he'd say they're "invisible dragons"...

makesureimjewish · 1 year

oldie but goodie

trevorfiasco · 1 year

Awesome concept, it's funny and very apt. I think the analogy could be taken further if the lights remained off, and Science just started feeling his way around and drawing conclusions about what was actually in the room based on what he could touch, reporting his findings to Religion, while Religion continues to maintain that there are dragons.

mrsnakers · 1 year

Sometimes I feel like religion isn't exactly the enemy but more repression and fear itself. Why don't we devote our lives to trying to eliminate fear, especially of the self, instead of focusing on religion? It's practically dead anyway.

rmeddy · 1 year

Sadly, the problem goes deeper than this, even if you turn on the light they'll claim it's the wrong hue and frequency for seeing dragons and believing in dragons would be properly basic

EricTboneJackson · 1 year

Oh, I get it. Science is right and religion is wrong. Almost went over my head with that one.

frequencyfreak · 1 year

*realizing this is r/atheism

Bullshit. Science and Religion are not enemies. NOT ENEMIES!

Science is the search for Truth and it will lead to the proof of God. Holy texts from ALL religions contain symbolism that fits with modern scientific knowledge.

It is my position that religion exists solely to allow an unedited version of past knowledge to exist so that when we, as children, mature enough through science to see its Truth, we can equate them as One.

God will be proven.

Rice_Daddy · 1 year

Does this mean that science guy will be the first ones to die in a horror movie?

HeezyB · 1 year

God cannot be seen in this realm according to the bible is all I am saying.

Dermit15 · 1 year

Because that's realistic.

Workaphobia · 1 year

This comic illustrates how you can say anything you like when your presentation is witty and clever. Specifically, it demonstrates this by doing the converse.


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