No comic, but a nice filler for once. My problem with doing these usually isn't finding time to draw them. Its trying to come up with dialog that doesn't suck so utterly. I feel like the last few have been better than average, and I'd rather wait to produce something that's of mildly higher quality than just rush along.

I'm headed to Nawlins for the weekend. Mardi Party Gras! I'm mostly excited to see Sarah, whom I rarely ever get to hang out with. I actually need to be packing right now.
I almost didn't go because I'm very very very short on money right now. UH is threatening me, so I've started emptying my tiny account into their inflated one. Bastards. I was worried about how I was going to buy gasoline. But, just when I needed money the most, the portrait studio called me in for some work. I'm going to have to borrow some from my parents, but I'll have a means of paying it back now that I've got a job again. You can bet I'm going to WORK too. (Though anyone who wants to contribute to the starving Heather fund is more than welcome.)

Now for some philosophical content: I read the BEST article on the clanBOB forum. It's a excerpt from "Finding Darwin's God". In it, a Christian science professor talks about how stupid it is to think that being religious requires you to deny science. Here is a long quote out of the middle if you are interested:

"...By pointing to the process of making a flower as proof of the reality of God, Father Murphy was embracing the idea that God finds it necessary to cripple nature. In his view, the blooming of a daffodil requires not a self-sufficient material universe, but direct intervention by God. We can find God, therefore, in the things around us that lack material, scientific explanations. In nature, elusive and unexplored, we will find the Creator at work.
"The creationist opponents of evolution make similar arguments. They claim that the existence of life, the appearance of new species, and, most especially, the origins of mankind have not and cannot be explained by evolution or any other natural process. By denying the self-sufficiency of nature, they look for God (or at least a "designer") in the deficiencies of science. The trouble is that science, given enough time, generally explains even the most baffling things. As a matter of strategy, creationists would be well-advised to avoid telling scientists what they will never be able to figure out. History is against them. In a general way, we really do understand how nature works...
"There is, however, a deeper problem caused by the opponents of evolution, a problem for religion. Like our priest, they have based their search for God on the premise that nature is not self-sufficient. By such logic, only God can make a species, just as Father Murphy believed only God could make a flower. Both assertions support the existence of God only so long as these assertions are true, but serious problems for religion emerge when they are shown to be false.
"If we accept a lack of scientific explanation as proof for God's existence, simple logic would dictate that we would have to regard a successful scientific explanation as an argument against God. That's why creationist reasoning, ultimately, is much more dangerous to religion than to science...
"Putting it bluntly, the creationists have sought God in darkness. What we have not found and do not yet understand becomes their best - indeed their only - evidence for the divine. As a Christian, I find the flow of this logic particularly depressing. Not only does it teach us to fear the acquisition of knowledge (which might at any time disprove belief), but it suggests that God dwells only in the shadows of our understanding. I suggest that, if God is real, we should be able to find him somewhere else - in the bright light of human knowledge, spiritual and scientific."

Still reading? Good. I don't know about you, but I find this kind of attitude hopeful and refreshing when it comes to Christianity. There are so many people out there who shut their eyes and close their ears just so they can protect their idea of God. This is a good one to comment on, guys.

While you chew on that, I'm going to go get a hurricane. ^_~
  ¶ 21:43