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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.
[Sigmund Freud]
Polar lobes and trefoil embryos in the Precambrian
A quick reply to some of the arguments made recently
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October 31, 2006
Category: Creationism • Politics
So I was way too depressing in that last post. Here's one of those little notes of hope that we hear too rarely—an Ohio Republican using her reason to back the best candidate for a job, even if he is...
Posted by PZ Myers at 5:32 PM • 50 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
I have to disagree with Red State Rabble and his announcement of the demise of Intelligent Design. We're seeing signs of a shifting of strategies, the fading of a few personalities, and a little confusion on the part of our...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:32 PM • 65 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academics
Wow. Our very own Shelly Batts is a finalist in competition for a blog scholarship. Help out a promising young neuroscientist and Vote Shelly! It is also an interesting turn to make blog popularity, as measured by a poll, the...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:54 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Weirdness
It belongs to The Poor Man Institute, dressed up as Powerline. It's terrifyingly detailed and accurate....
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:41 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
In the ongoing Hovind trial, no new revelations except for more details about how rich the creationist con artist and tax evader is. He makes $50,000/year in speaking fees, and with his wife, sells $1.8 million/year in "Christian merchandise" (tell...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:48 AM • 38 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
A reader in Canada just let me know that CBC Radio 1 will broadcast a program on creationist museum tours sometime this morning (between 9:30 and 10...the timezone is unclear). I won't be able to listen because I'm going...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:40 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Carnivals • Neurobiology • Science
This is a gross violation of my expectations: the Halloween edition of The Synapse doesn't even once crack a zombie joke. I was terribly disappointed. At least it does serve up a nice platter of brains....
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:03 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
If you're a fan of mangled philosophy and patent falsehoods, you really must read the Biblical view of science. It's crazily disconnected from anything close to describing how science actually works. What then is the Biblical view of science? Science...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:26 AM • 77 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness • Politics
Matt Yglesias comments on one of Amy Sullivan's usual complaints about "secular liberal intolerance" in the most cynical, hypocritical way possible: Now Amy's right. It would be useful, for the purposes of electoral politics, for liberals in the media to...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:00 AM • 37 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 30, 2006
Category: Godlessness
Rosenhouse plans to review the reviews of Dawkins' The God Delusion this week, and he's already off to a scathing start. Pop the popcorn, and sit back....
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:46 PM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Stupidity
Promise me, O Readers of Pharyngula, that you don't write emails as stupid as the ones below the fold....
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:37 PM • 92 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
After a week long hiatus, the Hovind trial continues in Florida. This week, we learn about the virtues of Christian charity. Hovind, a tax protester, makes a substantial amount of money. But he believes he and his employees work for...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:53 PM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
Ready to be terrified for Halloween? Just read this. (via Feministe)...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:57 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Weirdness
Man, I am so jealous of that Stupid Evil Bastard: he's gotten so lovely for Halloween....
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:19 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kooks
Mike Adams latest column is all about his UMM visit…although, actually, it's more of a whine about me. Dr. P.Z. Myer did, in fact, make my talk Thursday night and something very strange happened: He, too, experienced a sudden and...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:44 AM • 168 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
The physicist Sean Carroll takes on Eagleton, and also makes a few comments on The God Delusion—key point, I think: Dawkins took on too many issues at once in the book, and opened himself up to criticisms on the weaker...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:00 AM • 75 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
