{"id":2629,"date":"2011-04-10T22:59:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/04\/religion-science-and-cartoons-with-a-dash-of-star-wars\/"},"modified":"2011-04-10T22:59:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T22:59:00","slug":"religion-science-and-cartoons-with-a-dash-of-star-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/04\/religion-science-and-cartoons-with-a-dash-of-star-wars.html","title":{"rendered":"Religion, Science, and Cartoons &#8211; with a Dash of Star Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Jim Linville has a series of <a href=\"http:\/\/drjimsthinkingshop.com\/2011\/04\/how-the-dinosaurs-died-various-theories\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">cartoons and pictures related to the theme of how the dinosaurs died<\/a>. Here\u2019s a sample:<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drjimsthinkingshop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/6-2-08.gif\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/drjimsthinkingshop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/6-2-08.gif\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Jesus Needs New PR shared two gems \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesusneedsnewpr.net\/caption-this-possibly-the-most-ridiculous-jesus-picture-ever-painted\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JesusNeedsNewPr+%28JESUS+NEEDS+NEW+PR%3A+The+blog+of+author+Matthew+Paul+Turner%29\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">one asks for captions on what may indeed be the worst Jesus picture ever<\/a>\u00a0(I\u2019ve added my own\u00a0below):<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesusneedsnewpr.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/8.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesusneedsnewpr.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/8.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center\">\u201cNo seriously, you\u2019re gonna like her better than the tiger. Promise.\u201d<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesusneedsnewpr.net\/god-is-angry-make-him-sandwhich\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">a parody of the National Day of Prayer video<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Brad Matthies shared <a href=\"http:\/\/bradmatthies.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/10\/the-death-star-was-their-idea\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Star Wars parodies of the Windows 7 commercials<\/a>. Presumably this brings us full circle, since the Death Star must have killed the dinosaurs on some planet or other. <\/p>\n<p>See all the videos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/donnad\/the-death-star-was-my-idea\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-4583142926441385558?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Linville has a series of cartoons and pictures related to the theme of how the dinosaurs died. 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