#154: Beliefs explain

[A girl with long black hair and a professor who looks like Megan stand together. The girl points to Cueball in the distance.]

Girl: Professor, that man claims the earth is 6,000 years old!

Professor: So? Just use your head and don’t concern yourself overmuch with what other people think.

[Cueball is gone and the girl is no longer pointing but just talking to the professor.]

Girl: But he says the fossils in the mountains were put there in a flood!

Professor: Well, evidence suggests that they were not.

Girl: But he–

[A mountain landscape with blue sky to the left with white clouds, gray clod cover to the right and gray mountains below. The most prominent peak is just right of the middle, but there are 14 small and large peaks all in all.]

Professor (off-panel): A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them.

[The girl throws her hands in the air while the professor just looks at her.]

Girl: But he believes the silliest things!

Professor: So?

[The girl has her arms down again and looks on the talking professor.]

Professor: The universe doesn’t care what you believe.

Professor: The wonderful thing about science is that it doesn’t ask for your faith, it just asks for your eyes.

[The girl and professor talks.]

Girl: But he’s a US senator!

Professor: Ah, then yes, we do have a bit of a situation.