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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The real world was far too real to leave neat little hints. It was full of too many things. It wasn't by eliminating the impossible that you got at the truth, however improbable; it was by the much harder process of eliminating the possibilities.
(Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay)
Modeling metazoan cell lineages
Patterning the nervous system with Bmp
The proper reverence due those who have gone before
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August 31, 2006
The Vatican has a chief exorcist. There is an International Association of Exorcists. They believe Hitler was possessed by a demon and tried a long-distance exorcism. Oh, and Harry Potter is evil. Adolf Hitler and Russian leader Stalin were possessed...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:01 PM • 90 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
Wal-Mart has a policy in place to protect its customers from the obscenity and wickedness that writers put into books, yet they still have a few books on the shelves that are terribly indecent—one must assume that their censors are...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:07 PM • 53 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Carnivals • Science • Tangled Bank
The latest edition of the biweekly compendium of science blogging, the Tangled Bank, is now available for your reading enjoyment at Epigenetics News....
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:21 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
Everyone is going to be linking to this: Keith Olbermann eviscerates the Bush administration as a gang of arrogant, incompetent wanna-be fascists. Exactly! Ending it on an Edward R. Murrow quote wasn't presumptuous at all, and was entirely appropriate. It's...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:36 AM • 170 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Personal
It's 1:30AM, and our daughter wakes us up, pounding on the door. We hear a babbling brook, the cheerful sound of a waterfall—wait a moment, we don't live in a rain forest! We run to the basement to see...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:09 AM • 72 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 30, 2006
Category: Creationism
John A. Davison has started a new blog. You may recall his previous blog, or the one before that. His technique is to post one article, invite comments, and when he gets tired of them, move on...not to a new...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:05 PM • 48 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
When you see the sun over the ocean in California, I think it means the sun is setting. Maybe it was just subconscious honesty that the Lieberman campaign used a stock sunset photo to illustrate his status. He's Holy...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:32 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion • Stupidity
Maybe it would have been more sensible to start with the water-and-wine trick, and later work up to the walking-on-water finale. A priest has died after trying to demonstrate how Jesus walked on water. Evangelist preacher Franck Kabele, 35, told...
Posted by PZ Myers at 5:57 PM • 71 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Personal
Look whose birthday it is today: Skatje! You can all go wish her a happy day, although we're not having too much of a celebration, since it is that hectic first week of school for both of us. Anyway, it...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:47 PM • 43 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion • Weirdness
Am I some kind of preeevert or something? Because when I see this turtle's plastron, which some say has an image of the Virgin Mary, I see something completely different. When did a featureless tube with a nipple-like bump...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:43 AM • 45 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Development • Evolution • Science
We're only sorta bilaterally symmetric: superficially, our left and right halves are very similar, but dig down a little deeper, and all kinds of interesting differences appear. Our hearts are larger on the left than the right, our appendix...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:46 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Environment
Hunters should be allies of conservationists—in the best situations, hunting and wildlife groups have been great advocates of preserving habitat, which is the core issue, I think, in protecting biodiversity. If they're doing it so they can go in and...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:11 AM • 63 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Weblogs
Not that I'm going to complain: I got classified with Fafblog. It sounds like it was a very interesting panel, and I wish I could have been there…even if I hadn't been mentioned....
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:58 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
The ongoing dissection of Wells' The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design continues, with two new disembowelments on display. Andrea Bottaro rips up Chapter 9, "The Secret of Life". In this one, Wells makes the tired old...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:28 AM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Development • Evolution • Science
How do evolutionary novelties arise? The conventional explanation is that the first step is the chance formation of a genetic mutation, which results in a new phenotype, which, if it is favored by selection, may be fixed in a...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:43 AM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 29, 2006
Category: Humor
It's the second day of fall classes. I must be a little punch-drunk, what with all the obscure humor going up today, so forgive me....
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:51 PM • 66 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
