Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
…and this is a pharyngula stage embryo.
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If Christ rose at all, he rose on the very day on which he was buried. According to Matthew, a guard of Roman soldiers was placed at the entrance of the sepulchre to watch that no dead person came out, and that no living person went in. But Matthew admits that one night had passed before the guard was placed at the door of Roman militarism, with its unbending and inexorable discipline, does not need to be assured that the smartest corpse that was ever laid in a tomb would not be able to pass a Roman guard without being reduced to the kind of corpse that does not require a sealed stone and a squadron of soldiers to keep it from rising. If Christ rose at all, he rose before the soldiers walked sentry in front of his tomb; in other words, he rose on the very night of the very day he was placed in the tomb.
W.S. Ross, "Did Jesus Christ Rise from the Dead?" An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism (ed. Gordon Stein, Buffalo, NY: Prometheus, 1980), p. 210.
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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
Posted by: Stephanie | July 21, 2006 11:26 AM
Awwww. That's so sweet.
Posted by: Michael Bains | July 21, 2006 2:04 PM
That reminds me. I've still not got a quarter way through Leaves of Grass.
Gotta take care o' that sometime.
Posted by: The Ridger | July 21, 2006 3:06 PM
Ditto. Awwww.
Posted by: rrt | July 21, 2006 7:18 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: Gerry L | July 22, 2006 4:54 PM
PZ,
Please tell me this is a joke. Isn't that mom and tens of thousands of her "babes"?