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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation. I cannot do this in spite of the fact that mechanistic causality has, to a certain extent, been placed in doubt by modern science. [He was speaking of Quantum Mechanics and the breaking down of determinism.] My religiosity consists in a humble admiratation of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance — but for us, not for God.
[Albert Einstein, from "Albert Einstein: The Human Side", edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, Princeton University Press]
December 31, 2006
Category: Creationism
Maybe it's a bad, bad idea for a community to have an open-access electronic bulletin board, because it sure is a great tool for exposing the ugly underbelly of the group. Kearny, NJ has had its moment of fame, with...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:50 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
I am not going to praise John Derbyshire; some people seem to be impressed because he has penned a dismissal of the ID creationists, but jebus, that ought to be the absolute rock bottom minimum we should expect from...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:38 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Personal
I don't believe in New Year's resolutions—they're always so narrow and boring. I'd rather advance some bigger goals. When I was a young fellow, and my father was teaching me how to swing a bat, he'd tell me I shouldn't...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:03 PM • 51 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
Read the account of Saddam Hussein's last moments—it's a strange thing. Hussein was an evil man, but still, he carried himself at the end with strength and courage and a good amount of anger. The whole scene sounds like it...
Posted by PZ Myers at 5:50 PM • 61 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Reproduction
The daughter has put up a post with her thoughts on abortion—I swear I have not given her any instruction or even talked about the subject with her, but somehow she has developed roughly the same opinion on it that...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:12 PM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Carnivals
It's the 16th Circus of the Spineless. And they've got my cookies!...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:17 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
You can now read Richard Dawkins official statement on the controversial petition over at the Panda's Thumb....
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:11 AM • 46 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 30, 2006
Category: Creationism
It's hard to believe, but there is more information on the absurd board game designed by Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort. Cameron said, “We are very excited about this game because it presents both sides of the creation evolution argument,...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:01 PM • 90 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cephalopods
I don't think I showed this video in the flurry of Architeuthis posts a while back, but if so, it's worth seeing again. It is rather sad how limp and exhausted the poor animal looks as they drag it in....
Posted by PZ Myers at 5:19 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Jason pitches into that twit, Peter Hitchens—you may recall that I dealt with the same column a while back, but that level of stupid does support double-teaming to counter it, I think....
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:27 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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