Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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If we trust the author, either of the Gospel or of the early tradition, then even a non-saying may be historically illuminating about the primary Jesus: this was what a primary source, perhaps even a close one, thought that he meant. But how do we distinguish between what Jesus did mean, what an early close acquaintance thought that he meant and what later Christians claimed that he had said?
Robin Lane Fox, The Unauthorized Version, (New York: Vintage, 1993), p. 203.
Generic bumps and recycled genetic cascades
Regulatory evolution of the Hox1 gene
Ten questions to ask your biology teacher
Patterning the nervous system with Bmp
Upstream plasticity and downstream robustness in evolution of molecular networks
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January 31, 2006
Category: Personal
There's a great story in the Rake about the Dakotas—that place just a few miles west of where I'm sitting. This is an odd part of the world, where population is actually contracting and drifting away to leave our...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:39 PM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Weirdness
Our vampire candidate for governor, "the Impaler", has been arrested for "escape" and "stalking". I just have to say…Duh. What do you expect from a vampire? (via MNSpeak)...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:46 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Personal
…so go wish them a happy birthday....
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:50 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism • Evolution • Godlessness • Politics • Science • Weblogs
I've got a couple of posts that have been nominated for The 2005 Koufax Awards: Best Post, so I've quickly brought them on board here at the new site. Voting isn't yet open, but here they are: Idiot America. This...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:35 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Some people might think I'm a rather morbid fellow. Years ago, when I was an undergraduate lackey at the University of Washington and working at the med school, there, I made a wonderful discovery one lunch hour: a bone...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:22 AM • 44 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
I know you will not believe me, but I swear it's true: I'm not of this earth. I fled here years ago because my home planet was driving me crazy. Let me explain. My home world is very much...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:21 AM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism • Godlessness • Politics
I love this article. Ctenotrish sent along a copy of Greetings from Idiot America, by Charles P. Pierce (sorry, but it's behind a firewall, and you have to pay $2.95 to see it) from the latest Esquire. I don't...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:13 AM • 34 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
Oh. My. Nonexistent. God. Debbie Schlussel. How does anyone take these "conservative commentators" seriously? She read a NYT article that shows a genetic link between Asians and Native Americans, and guess what that means? It was OK for Europeans to...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:43 AM • 44 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
We're getting signs that the Discovery Institute is going to be shifting their strategy a little bit. Thoughts from Kansas has an excellent discussion of the subject. Basically, they're going to embrace more of the actual science, and focus their...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:06 AM • 37 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Well, Kevin Drum's prediction about the State of the Union address is a bit vague and general: Bush's theme may well be that he's right and his critics are wrong; and his vision may well be of a year of...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:57 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 30, 2006
Category: Politics
Remember these names when Alito screws us over. These are the ones who didn't even try to stop him. Akaka, Daniel K. (Coward-HI) Baucus, Max (Doormat-MT) Bingaman, Jeff (Toady-NM) Byrd, Robert C. (Ditherer-WV) Cantwell, Maria (One-termer-WA) Carper, Thomas R. (Lickspittle-DE)...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:14 PM • 35 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
I sat down and watched both episodes of Dawkins' series, The Root of All Evil? this weekend (because I can!), and I have to say…I liked it very much. I've already commented on the first episode, and if you want...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:59 PM • 41 Comments • 2 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
It's got everything a fascist dictator might want in a law. A new provision tucked into the Patriot Act bill now before Congress would allow authorities to haul demonstrators at any "special event of national significance" away to jail on...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:05 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academics • Politics
I will join the chorus in praising Bérubé's essay on academic freedom. It's excellent; now if only the people most desperately in need of reading it weren't barely literate anti-intellectual thugs, it would be an awesomely persuasive rhetorical tool....
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Category: Creationism
John Lynch catches Dembski getting all breathless about a class in Switzerland that includes a lecture on ID. Big whoop, John says, he teaches it, too. So do I. Why wasn't Dembski announcing this glorious victory last semester, when I...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:05 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I gave up on caffeine this past summer—I actually cut it off cold turkey for a good long while. I'm backsliding a bit now, though, just because my early morning teaching schedule has me feeling mostly exhausted all the time...
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