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This may seem odd – or maybe not; y’all probably have a fair sense of my weirdness by now – but I’m struck on this page by how well Tracy captured the brothers’ noses and eyebrows. These are important facial characteristics, and I love that Tracy kept them faithful to the original work.
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Odd? Not at all.
It’s perfectly normal* to be discussing the authenticity of persona features of fictional characters in an on-line comic.
* for some undefived value of ‘normal’ 🙂
Genre awareness – in this comic – Dreamland is real and there is crossover between the waking world and it. Otherwise that statement is so wrong on so many levels – you are not supposed to do science from faith – you propose a hypotethis based on known facts, and then you test to see if you can predict the next data set recieved or if you predicted wrong and you need a new hypotethis. Not sure what they could do with the existing data – Alex is telling his dreams, and he looks brain-dead when asleep. not enough info for anything – just believing him or thinking he is halucinating.
The word you were looking for is hypothesis, but otherwise you’re essentially correct. Faith is not necessarily a bad thing, but faith and science are notoriously difficult to reconcile. Not impossible, but difficult.
thanks – spelling is hard 😉
I define faith as the opposite of science – as a method of work, at least. If you believe something, you don’t need to validate it against reality. Individual people may fall short of the ideal, but the scientific method works best when trying to discredit something, while faith works best when not asking questions at all. The methods can’t be reconciled like that – once you start asking questions, you stop going by faith, and vice versa – when you stop trying to find out more, you stop doing science.
I think most people would agree with you. I’ve always striven to reconcile science and faith in my own life, however. I’m a practicing Catholic: I have faith that God created everything. Science helps me ask the questions that teach me more about that creation and further marvel at its beauty. Science gives me a tiny glimpse into how He created everything. For me, science doesn’t destroy faith, science affirms faith; faith doesn’t cripple science, faith motivates science.
For me, heaven is taking eternity – which is exactly how long it would take – to learn everything that God knows. So learning new things through science is like getting a small taste of heaven.
Alex is admitting that he couldn’t do this by himself…!