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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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Scientific education and religious education are incompatible. The clergy have ceased to interfere with education at the advanced state, with which I am directly concerned, but they have still got control of that of children. This means that the children have to learn about Adam and Noah instead of about Evolution; about David who killed Goliath, instead of Koch who killed cholera; about Christ's ascent into heaven instead of Montgolfier's and Wright's. Worse than that, they are taught that it is a virtue to accept statements without adequate evidence, which leaves them a prey to quacks of every kind in later life, and makes it very difficult for them to accept the methods of thought which are successful in science.
[J.B.S. Haldane]
Chance and regularity in the development of the fly eye
Regulatory evolution of the Hox1 gene
Deep homologies in the pharyngeal arches
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Category: Organisms • Weirdness
Posted on: August 20, 2006 10:29 AM, by PZ Myers
But when you do shed your speedo, don't throw it in the water—it's bad for dolphins and other living things. Read about the poor dolphin who tried to wear a speedo—it took an emergency depantsing team to rescue him.
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I can assure you sir that my swimming naked would be more evil. And probably yours too.
Posted by: Rheinhard | August 20, 2006 12:30 PM
You know, the title of this post sounds a newspaper headline. Speedos are evil and swim naked?
Posted by: j | August 20, 2006 1:06 PM
Here is a web site with photos. Fortunately for us all, they only have the 'before' photos...
Posted by: Jim | August 20, 2006 1:50 PM
http://www.tampabays10.com/news/specials/popular/article.aspx?s=popular&storyid=36842
Posted by: Jim | August 20, 2006 1:51 PM
And the dolphin still hasn't recovered.
The thong is ended, but the malady lingers on.
Posted by: dmpalmer | August 20, 2006 9:20 PM