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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[W]hen the martyr's righteous forebrain is exploded by the executioner's bullet and his mind disintegrates, what then? Can we safely assume that all those millions of neural circuits will be reconstituted in an immaterial state, so the conscious mind carries on?
Edward O. Wilson, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, (First edition, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998), p. 245.
I'll explain it when you are older.
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November 30, 2006
Category: Politics
Tild~ has a nice retort and badge for the Republicans. Now every time they pull that "Democrat party" stunt, we just reply back with a reference to the Republican't party....
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:47 PM • 36 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Environment • Politics
Justice Scalia: "I told you I'm not a scientist. That's why I don't want to deal with global warming." He's quite right, actually: he's not a scientist, nor should we expect him to be. That's why our government ought to...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:28 PM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Daniel Morgan, of Get Busy Livin' or Get Busy Bloggin' was interviewed on the Florida 10 commandments monument. It would be a moment of glory if Sean Hannity hadn't been involved. You can catch it all on YouTube....
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:42 PM • 31 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness • Humor
Go ahead, fill it out. These forms are so easy to lose. Don't forget to send in the warranty information, too!...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:44 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
You know, people don't believe me when I say I don't give my kids weekly or daily instruction about atheism, but it's true: my daughter asked for my videos of "The Root of All Evil?" and "The God Who Wasn't...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:39 PM • 45 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Weirdness
There are three people who need to burn in hell for this photo. Don't they know I've been trying to forget the Disco Years?...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:33 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Entertainment
If you've been wondering how it would turn out, the first review of the Left Behind video game is online. It doesn't get any thumbs up. Don't mock Left Behind: Eternal Forces because it's a Christian game. Mock it...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:51 AM • 28 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Books
I got a request from Hillary Rettig: those gift-giving holidays (you know, Cephalopodmas and some other religion-tainted days) are coming up, and as we are all pale, text-focused people here, she thought the Pharynguloid hive mind would be the...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:04 AM • 125 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Books
Wait…what about us grown-ups? What is the best science fiction novel you've read recently? I'm seeing lots of recommendations for Orson Scott Card, but I have to admit that I've long lost any affection I might have had for his...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:03 AM • 183 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Books
Let's drop the "fiction" from the requirements: what are the best science books out there in the bookstores? I should update my updated book list for evolutionists again, so give me some good leads....
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:03 AM • 58 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Development • Evolution • Science
I found these on youtube, a couple of nice cartoony animations of the development of the urogenital system. This is one of the weirder modules in organogenesis, I think; many strange things go on that are relics of ancestral...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:35 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
But of course, he had to go somewhere else. That creationist who bailed out of his very own personal thread here turned up at the Calladus blog, only to get crushed there, too. He's a very silly man. We're...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:00 AM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 29, 2006
Category:
Everyone should give birthday greetings to Olduvai George today....
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:36 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
Now Phil is trying to kill me—he sent me this link with a knowing smirk, plainly telling me that he knew it would raise my blood pressure. People, think this stuff through: if I were found dead in my chair,...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:10 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Well, hooray! I was going to jump onto this awesome example of flagrantly stupid creationist innumeracy, but I'd been putting it off (oh, my grading. My grading. It tears at me with talons like razors). This guy mangles recent measurements...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:13 PM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Organisms
The neurophilosopher writes on the virtues of being ugly—there's actually a good reason why bat faces are decorated with odd protrusions and lumps and folds. Maybe "Yo momma echolocates" would be a good insult to remember....
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:24 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
