Scott C. is well known for his super delightful paintings and pop culture themes but this scottc’d version of “The Anatomy lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp”is one of my favorite things… ever? From a show at London Miles.
The Hushblade, by Jason Chan for WotC’s Magic: The Gathering.
Something beautifully ceremonial about this design.
This is very neat. Totally keeping this image in mind for a role play or story coming up!
Ah looks like those weirdos I picked up in the last comic are puttin’ in their time. We’ll see what those other two got for us on Friday.
MUSIC TIME: You can listen to the new Childish Gambino album now?! On NPR??? I saw him in Boston and he plays a mean show. You can also listen to David Lynch’s new jam!! What the shit, all right, sure, let’s do this.
Of course, if you are reading this months or years from now, then those albums are already out and you can probably go get them now.
All right. I want KC Green to write a play for me. How much would I have to pay or that?
So, following the immense popularity of my 5 Essential Character Redesigns post, I decided to take a more thorough stab at revamping DC Comic’s Justice League. I’ve already mentioned before that I think their current “New 52” reboot, aimed at gaining new readers, is terribly ineffective,…
This is amazing. Such a great take on old characters and an interesting spin on some that are a little new. I wish Aaron Diaz was writing and designing for DC, then I might read more than just Batman.
Portrait artist: Micah Johnson
While outside the scope of comics, since this was posted by my fellow cartoonist (and also well within the confines of my own comic’s subjects), I thought I’d give it a reblog.
There is a reason that science and religion frequently butt heads, and it deals with the nature of understanding. From a sociological and historical standpoint, the primary function of a religion is to provide cultural cohesion, so some wonder why it would ever “need” to conflict with science. The issue only arises because religion achieves that cohesion through empirical claims (by this I mean claims about the nature of the world). Whether those claims are “a god created the world” or “the Earth is the center of the universe,” it doesn’t really matter, it’s all in a realm that it empirically testable. Science, while constructed to deal with a different end of the human experience, does overlap in this empirical realm, and so there arises a conflict.
While individuals can exhibit personal and cultural bias, science, as an institution, produces knowledge that is independent of any particular culture, and so potentially places itself at odds with anything that relies on empirical claims. If your worldview and personal values are tied to, say, the Sun being made mostly of iron, you’re not going to take kindly to evidence to the contrary.
This is why religion is at its core incompatible with the continued expanse of human knowledge (science). Understanding new things about the world, in the lens of religious thinking, is not required and is almost always limited in some way. Even the most progressive or benign religions ultimately place some limitation on “what we can know.” They have to, because every religion still has physical or metaphysical claims about existence. If they didn’t, they’d just be philosophies.
This is what Professor Dawkins is addressing, that what actually unifies all religion is that they all share some point where the furthering of understanding must end. And, for him (and many of us), this is inacceptable.
