And of course if anyone disagrees with him he immediately kicks them out of the class. Did I have the only tolerant anthropology professor in college? I'd hate to see what this guy's student evaluations are like. Then again, since the rest of the class has no opinion of their own then he's probably golden.

So now we get a good look at our hero, a gentlemanly, almost Aryan young man. He's so very polite and kind compared to the obviously evil professor. Oh right and the rest of the class is making snarky comments in the background.

This must be the evil atheist world (or Catholic I really wouldn't be surprised) where being religious is apparently against the law. I only say this because I made mention of my beliefs to my anthropology professor when I took some classes and she really didn't care.

Ah, but this man worships at the alter of SCIENCE!, which makes sense. After all SCIENCE! is so much fun to say. You can't get the same effect out of RELIGION Oh and if anyone has any allergies you might want to back out now because like Freudian Slip's last tract we are about to have a huge straw man set up here.

And to be honest I'd probably be questioning my teacher if he started screaming like that. I'd probably back slowly out of the classroom and request a transfer to another class, maybe get the campus police to haul him away. The guy obviously has some anger issues.

Thank you Morbo. Again I must reiterate I hope this guy doesn't have tenure. And surprise Professor Strawman, that's not how evolution works! Here let me, the invisible student in the class who's too busy screwing around on his laptop to participate in the conversation define evolution. And this is off the top of my head mind you: Any change in genetic allele frequencies in a population over time. In this context it applies only to biology.

What you think is chemical evolution? We have a word for that, it's called fusion. We can do it, it's proven.

Planetary evolution? It's called a nebular hypothesis (see that word? It'll come up in real science a lot. It's not set in stone), and I'm pretty sure it's been observed.

Organic evolution? Eh...Well...Life from rocks? Oh for christ's sake, Morbo?

Thank you Morbo. You know I think that applies to everything else listed. Anyway, most of those have already been observed or are called something entirely different. Now a man who has studied this all his life and undoubtedly has a Phd on the subject would know this. I don't know maybe this is a shitty community college or something. Moving on.

And of course Darwin is mentioned. Actually I'm kind of amazed. I think this is the only time Darwin is mentioned in this whole tract. I guess he had to be stuck in there somewhere.

But this rebuttal. Okay I'll spare Morbo this time, but I haven't been able to find any information about Leakey's human skull discovery (though I am only using wikipedia here), but I did find some information about his discovery of a homo habilis and homo erectus skull. Interesting to leave those out.

And yes, Lucy was just a chimp, a chimp with legs meant for walking upright, and with a lumbar curve in her spine, which is part of the reason we can walk upright. Oh and she had a larger cranial capacity than chimps. And...yeah me thinks someone didn't do his research. Well surely Professor Strawman will be able to explain this to our student to clear up this misunderstanding.

It's also funny how the student basically shoots his argument in the foot by admitting the Earth is more than 6000 years old.

Oh ho, but the student obviously has a scientific study of his own. And surely SCIENCE! has the answers!

Because don't mention Australopithecus, Homo Habilis, Homo Erectus, or... I think you have the idea.

You know, I am really beginning to feel sorry for his co-anchor. Hm...Ah I've got it!

Sorry, got a bit carried away there.

I love the second panel as well with the student towering over the cowering professor while stating a wrong definition of evolution.. I think we all know what this calls for!

And thus we see Professor Strawman finally break down. Poor guy, he put up a valiant effort. But when your only knowledge comes from Jack Chick's knowledge of science then you really don't have much of a chance.

And so exits Professor Strawman, thus being proven completely and totally wrong about evolution. Decades of research all undone by a single conversation with a student.

Final thoughts...Morbo?

I kind of have to disagree with you on that. I've had a few stupid professors, well one really sticks out and she was a history professor. Even then she knew her specialization, just nothing else. So, okay yeah I agree. I wonder if that university needs a new paleontology professor? I only have a BA in History, but considering their qualification standards I think I have a good shot.