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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But might not one suppose as some have supposed, that the feeling which is observed in animated bodies, might belong to a being distinct from the matter of these bodies, to a substance of a different nature united to them? Does the light of reason allow us in good faith to admit such conjectures? We know in bodies only matter, and we observe the faculty of feeling only in bodies: on what foundation then can we erect an ideal being, disowned by all our knowledge?
[Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751) "The Natural History of the Soul" (1742)]
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Category: Organisms
Posted on: July 21, 2006 10:04 AM, by PZ Myers
I SEE the sleeping babe, nestling the
breastsiphon of its mother;
The sleeping mother and babe—hush'd, I study them long and long.Walt Whitman
Figure from Cephalopods: A World Guide (amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), by Mark Norman.
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Comments
Awwww. That's so sweet.
Posted by: Stephanie | July 21, 2006 11:26 AM
That reminds me. I've still not got a quarter way through Leaves of Grass.
Gotta take care o' that sometime.
Posted by: Michael Bains | July 21, 2006 2:04 PM
Ditto. Awwww.
Posted by: The Ridger | July 21, 2006 3:06 PM
It still fascinates me to see how such a sophisticated, intelligent, beautiful creature reproduces in a way so similar to the rest of its phylum. So different, and yet so much the same.
Posted by: rrt | July 21, 2006 7:18 PM
PZ,
Please tell me this is a joke. Isn't that mom and tens of thousands of her "babes"?
Posted by: Gerry L | July 22, 2006 4:54 PM