Being a scientist, it is difficult to discuss popular belief or myth in a scientific way to those who are not trained to look at things that way. I can be patient when I do that though, knowing that those individuals may still have something worthwhile to say. To believe that all scientists are non-religious and that all religious are non-scientific is simplistic.

The only thing that I can quibble about in this cartoon is that this paints those who are "non-scientific" as closed minded (while trying to show that those who are scientific are not) that they seem somewhat closed minded in their own beliefs. There seems to be an implicit description of close minded beliefs in the examples given.

I have seen close minded individuals in both worlds (scientific and religious) and they are usually tiresome people. Preaching what is true and condemning what they know is not true. I would hope that we all have a healthy dose of scepticism of our own beliefs, at least enough to be humble...remember a scientific law is a law until we find a contradiction in nature...

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