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Posted on: April 15, 2007 8:53 AM, by PZ Myers
There is a short interview with me at One Blog A Day, and they asked about you people, you know, you commenters here, and I was brutally honest. Please don't rise up and strip the flesh from my bones.
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Comments
Wow. Y'learn so much sometimes. I knew there was an explanation for all the screaming from my browser.
Posted by: Johnny Vector | April 15, 2007 9:00 AM
Hey! Who you callin' a "raconteur"? Them's fightin' words, you random biological ejaculator!
Posted by: David Livesay | April 15, 2007 9:05 AM
The text box here doesn't scream. It just stares and stares and stares.
We dare not disobey
Bob
Posted by: Bob O'H | April 15, 2007 9:10 AM
"We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for."
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Wow! He could care less about these comments. The lack of vanity is impressive.
Posted by: Marcia | April 15, 2007 9:16 AM
PZ, we all try to to our bit for the cause - godless evolution by natural selection, & we're right behind you man!
And it looks like the N Y Times is coming on board, eh. I don't get access to the full N Y Times, so has anyone here checked this out?
OP-ED COLUMNIST
The Age of Darwin
By DAVID BROOKS
A newish all-explaining narrative has crept upon us willy-nilly and is now all around.
I dunno about willy-nilly though. Surely, what started as a trickle has turned into a flood.
Posted by: Richard Harris, FCD | April 15, 2007 9:21 AM
I guess I should apologize for writing that you are a nice, mild person who likes children and fuzzy kittens. In truth, folks, I trembled in his presence. He chained my kids in the dungeon and would have eaten them, but I distracted him by tossing him a bucket of stem cells and squirming fetuses that he could greedily study and then destroy.
I only wrote what I wrote in hopes that some creationists would be trapped by the prospect of having a "reasonable" disagreement.
Eat well, Master, eat well.
Posted by: Mike Haubrich | April 15, 2007 9:23 AM
I badly, badly, badly want to become a creationist troll here after reading that.
Must resist ...
Blogging is its own justification. Commenting? Not sure.
Posted by: Markk | April 15, 2007 9:59 AM
"...militant atheists..." Great. Isn't it enough that the Christian community has already decided to refer to us this way?
Posted by: vjack | April 15, 2007 10:06 AM
"He's not a ferocious atheist. He's a very naughty boy!"
Posted by: Ian H Spedding FCD | April 15, 2007 10:12 AM
Great interview, PZ!
David Brooks today. Apparently, he's found a place for Darwin in his boboworld. Do I care? No.
And it occurred to me that while we postmoderns say we detest all-explaining narratives, in fact a newish grand narrative has crept upon us willy-nilly and is now all around. Once the Bible shaped all conversation, then Marx, then Freud, but today Darwin is everywhere.
[...]
Creationists reject the whole business, but they're like the Greeks who still worshiped Athena while Plato and Aristotle practiced philosophy. The people who set the cultural tone today have coalesced around a shared understanding of humanity and its history that would have astonished people in earlier epochs.
[...]
Looking at contemporary America from here in Jerusalem and from the ancient past, it's clear we're not a postmodern society anymore. We have a grand narrative that explains behavior and gives shape to history. We have a central cosmology to embrace, argue with or unconsciously submit to.
Posted by: CalGeorge | April 15, 2007 10:13 AM
I only have one thing to say to one Pharyngula reader:
Hi Mom!
Posted by: The Science Pundit | April 15, 2007 10:44 AM
For the first time, I am dissapointed in a PZ analogy.
We atheists do not leave the gleaming bones of Creationists to lie. We do as our bloodthirsty ancestors did, we smash the bones and eat the protein-rich marrow!
That's what makes us human.
Posted by: Scholar | April 15, 2007 11:45 AM
Hilliary Clinton is President.
Posted by: Scholar | April 15, 2007 12:07 PM
That wasn't so bad, but obsessive? My honour is impugned. You sir, are a blaggard!!!
Fellow infidels, please review my latest effort at re-educating the masses. The Ethics of Hell. Post, promote, comment, savage and distribute according to taste : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FatTbfGCJVI
Posted by: Brian Coughlan | April 15, 2007 12:37 PM
Brian, great video! Clear, concise, to the point.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FatTbfGCJVI
Where's that accent from? Must spread that around...
Posted by: Observer | April 15, 2007 1:02 PM
Posted by: Blake Stacey | April 15, 2007 1:19 PM
YOU MAKE MONEY DOING THIS??
Well, I have never been so insulted in my life!
(Where's my share?)
(I now suppose I gotta add a smile. ;D Happy now?)
Posted by: MikeM | April 15, 2007 1:40 PM
You make money doing this? Cool. I just like to msging if its good enough for that. Can you see how many people visit you a day?
Posted by: Adrian Clement | April 15, 2007 1:52 PM
Yes, the stats are wide open -- there's a little rainbow colored square at the bottom of the page that will take you to the sitemeter stats.
Posted by: PZ Myers | April 15, 2007 1:56 PM
Fat-rich.
(There! I found an excuse to fill half of the empty text box!)
Posted by: David Marjanović | April 15, 2007 2:03 PM
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http://nblgdy.cm/wb/2007/04/15/phryngl-vltn-dvlpmnt-nd-rndm-blgcl-jcltns/
V-M--r-t--n
(f crs f y r nt frd dctr Myrs wll bn y hvng dscssn wth m thr.)
[For the last time, VMartin, you are an obtuse moron. You have been told repeatedly that you are not welcome here, you know that you will be deleted on the spot so you constantly change your username to evade the filters, yet you persist in intruding where you are not wanted. GO AWAY. Your comments will be deleted as soon as I see them. --pzm]
Posted by: Pikacu | April 15, 2007 3:00 PM
Well, I guess you can't be all bad...after all you do like Jhonen Vasquez.
Posted by: MartinDH | April 15, 2007 3:19 PM
Where's that accent from? Must spread that around...
Glad you liked the video, the accent is "very rarified Irishman". I've lived in too many countries to have kept the real thing, what you hear is a pale shadow. Some Irish people think I'm American.:-)
Posted by: Brian Coughlan | April 15, 2007 3:46 PM
Here is the great Paul Robeson singing the Soviet Anthem in English. Some may think I am kidding, but the sentiments in this song are genuine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtU3vUOa2sw
The capitalist credo is "do unto others before they do unto you".
Posted by: bernarda | April 15, 2007 4:57 PM
Is it possible to recycle creationists? Anyway, can somebody give me a hug? I accidently stopped over at WorldNetDaily and feeling a bit shiverish all of a sudden...
Posted by: Mark UK | April 15, 2007 5:02 PM
Are you the same "bernarda" who keeps showing up on Orac's threads?
http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2006/10/an_antisemite_demands_why_a_holocaust_mu_1.php
Posted by: Colugo | April 15, 2007 5:10 PM
I'm definitely a savage raconteur. Actually, probably a reconteuse sauvage, but that's quibbling.
No, I have not yet written the piece on basic framing, sorry!, so if you're among the folks who have been coming to my pad looking for it, you will continue to be disappointed. Right now I'm trouncing the hell (or maybe the "expected standards") out of the Mathematica abstinence-only education report. In the meantime, go on over to Coturnix's place and get up to speed on what framing is.
Brian, I was thinking your accent was Transatlantic of middle-class Northwest English extraction, so I wasn't far off... :) You sound an awful lot like a slightly North Americanised version of my boy in Birkenhead. :)
Posted by: Interrobang | April 15, 2007 5:53 PM
hmmm, I'm troubled by the JTHM reference. Where would a respectable professor come by such material?
Posted by: John B | April 16, 2007 12:12 AM
Mad?
As usual, you have hit the nail on the head.
And the nail deserved it.
;D
Posted by: Will Von Wizzlepig | April 16, 2007 4:08 PM
My thoughts exactly! It looks like so much fun! And you don't need to know anything about the subject at hand - just let loose with the inspired ramblings.
Posted by: grimalkin | April 16, 2007 5:46 PM
'just let loose with the inspired ramblings.'
I do believe that insipid rambling would be the better, more accurate descriptor of our creationist interlopers postings.
(There, I filled in the beckoning box, once again. I feel better now, for a while.)
Posted by: Desert Donkey | April 17, 2007 1:18 AM