Comic #6256: limitless

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Panel 1:

• Girl: "There's no reason to believe God performs miracles."
• Priest: "Ah, but by definition miracles cannot be tested. Only attested, because they happened just once."

Panel 2:

• Girl: "Exactly! If God performed a miracle to make His presence felt, He should have performed it regularly at precise intervals!"
• Priest: "But if he did that, it wouldn't be miraculous. It would simply be a known law of nature."
• Text: "WRONG"

Panel 3:

• Girl: "This is a simple optimization problem. Each new performance makes the action less miraculous but more believable. There is some number of repetitions that maximizes the product of miraculousness and believability, and it is obviously higher than 1/."

Panel 4:

• Girl: "Either your miracles are lies or God can’t do differential calculus!"

Panel 5:

• Priest: (silent, thinking)
• Text: "LATER…"

Panel 6:

• Girl: "Lord, what is the derivative of x³ ln x - √x + i?"
• God: "DAMMIT MAN, THIS IS PRECISELY WHY I MADE THE UNIVERSE DISCRETE."

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