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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
…and this is a pharyngula stage embryo.
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To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin.
[Cardinal Bellarmino 1615, during the trial of Galileo]
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January 31, 2007
Category: Politics
He must be a smart guy: he just picked Amanda Marcotte to run the John Edwards blog. And since Amanda will be slightly distracted, she's brought in five (it takes five people to take Amanda's place?) new people to keep...
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…is to go say Happy Birdday to GrrlScientist....
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Posted by PZ Myers at 9:58 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Don Boys is not happy that Kent Hovind has been sent to jail. Kent's enemies are painting him as a greedy tax resister when he has said repeatedly that he will pay all the taxes he owes. He could...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 8:20 PM • 36 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Molly Ivins has died. I'm surprised at how this affects me. She was a wonderful woman, wise and funny, and this is a great loss to the nation. Whenever I'm tempted to just write off the whole state of Texas...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 8:10 PM • 30 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Uh-oh. Evolution has just been refuted by a very sophisticated simulation. Try it; you'll quickly discover how frustratingly boring evolution can be, and you'll give up on it. The 'simulation' is simple: put some random text in a box, click...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 7:07 PM • 90 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
James Trumm has a single issue, one that trumps all the others in the election booth, and I have to agree with him. It's a kind of signal flare that says the person advocating it is a total loon...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 4:43 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Since I got ribbed a bit for my antique D&D lore in a previous comment, I have to defend myself from charges of extreme nerdlitude by distracting you all with a real nerdfest: a discussion of who would win in...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 4:27 PM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Weblogs
You all recall the Beagle Project that I recently mentioned was trying to raise money to reconstruct the Beagle and sail off to Patagonia (with me hiding belowdecks, of course). Miss Prism had a terrific idea: she's knitting a...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 3:32 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Tangled Bank
The latest Tangled Bank is online at Ouroboros, and it's a big one. I noticed what seemed to be an awful lot of entries whizzing through my mailbox on the way, so I had a suspicion that we were...
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January 30, 2007
Category: Creationism
We went round and round on this well over a year ago. Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame, wrote a shallow and ignorant argument that sort of shilly-shallied over a pro-creationist argument; I pointed out how stupid his reasoning was. The...
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