It’s December and the holiday season is upon us, and you know what that means. Plenty of facepalmingly terrible comics about Christmas and winter. I guess I should leave Ray Comfort’s ‘The Primates’ and, through Epiphany, aka the Gentile’s Christmas, we’ll be looking at more various, seasonal fair. So for today, let’s look at a comic called ‘Inherit the Mirth’. I love this pun, because not only is it a play on earth (ala the meek shall inherit the earth), but also mirth sounds like myth. I’m sure it’ll be funny! Just not ha-ha funny.

The Comic

The Deconstruction

“Don’t be absurd” declares the ahumanist snowman, “Nobody made us! We evolved by chance from snowflakes!”. Don’t be absurd, our unsleeping eyes can watch the snow fall and naturally form… wait. Actually, wouldn’t they see people make other snowmen? And wouldn’t they notice that snowflakes have no selection process that could lead to structures such as themselves?

And that’s not even picking on the topic of evolving ‘by chance’, a perennial misunderstanding by apologists. The problem of observation is too great. We only have our scientific theories due to observation, not by armchair scientists who dream up shit for the fun of it. Our concepts of science are not based on ‘common sense’. Common sense tells us that the sun rises in the East, the earth is the center of the universe and that different animals can’t be related. There is a reason common sense doesn’t help with science, because if you were happy with the ‘common sense’ answer, you wouldn’t find the truth.

In the comic, the snowman claiming it wasn’t made has decided to not look at the evidence. It implies the evidence is all around, but the atheist isn’t looking. Funny, in real life the evidence is all around that evolution is true, but some people would rather just follow a claim that is not backed by physical evidence.

The Revision

I had two ways I wanted to go at this one. The first one required no extra drawing, so I’m doing that one.

As we all know, snowmen have short lives and cannot share information with future generations. So it’s natural for them to create myths about the people that make them. People often become eternal in their minds, and the snow and cold that keeps them alive are seen as gifts from their creators. It’s just something you have to take on faith. I mean, you’ve never seen the origins of snow, have you? I guess that would make spring time, the thaw and rains the final reckoning for the snowman’s sinful life.