Caught this from one of my favorite strips Non Sequitur:
While I am sure folks can think of examples where religion inhibited science, Galileo and the current Creationism are two examples, I think this strip might overstate it a bit. There are many examples of religious organizations supporting science, including parochial schools performing cutting edge scientific research to the many advances made by theists of all sorts. Personally I think instead of images of the Pope, a Rabbi, and an Islamic Cleric, I think images of little kennie ham, a televangelista, and maybe right-winger in an ill-fitting lab coat might be a better, although less obvious, point. Just my $0.02.
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One of my friends gave me some verbal feedback that I cannot resist repeating here. In order for this image to be more accurate, the Televangelista would have grabbed the chalk and used it as a microphone to pontificate. Little kennie ham would have taken the eraser and erased anything on the board that didn't say 'Bible'. The right-winger would have been taking all the scientist's resources, like the board, and even his lab coat, by cutting off any funding.
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