Now on ScienceBlogs: Freethinker Sunday Sermonette: Ricky Gervais on The Book of Genesis
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.
• a longer profile of yours truly
• my calendar
• Nature Network
• RichardDawkins Network
• facebook
• MySpace
• Twitter
• Atheist Nexus
• the Pharyngula chat room
(#pharyngula on irc.synirc.net)
• Quick link to the latest endless thread
If we want to postulate a deity capable of engineering all the organized complexity in the world, either instantaneously or by guiding evolution, that deity must already have been vastly complex in the first place. The creationist, whether a naive Bible-thumper or an educated bishop, simply postulates an already existing being of prodigious intelligence and complexity. If we are going to allow ourselves the luxurt of postulating organized complexity without offering an explanation, we might as well make a job of it and simply postulate the existence of life as we know it!
Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker (New York: W.W. Norton, 1986), p. 316.
August 31, 2006
Category: Religion
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 • 54 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Carnivals
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
Category: Politics
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
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
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
PZ Myers 11.19.2009
PZ Myers 11.19.2009
Tim Lambert 11.22.2009
Tim Lambert 11.18.2009
Ed Brayton 11.19.2009
