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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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[P]rescientific people… could never guess the nature of physical reality beyond the tiny sphere attainable by unaided common sense. Nothing else ever worked, no exercise from myth, revelation, art, trance, or any other conceivable means; and notwithstanding the emotional satisfaction it gives, mysticism, the strongest prescientific probe in the unknown, has yielded zero.
Edward O. Wilson, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, (First edition, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998), p. 46.
October 31, 2007
Category: Personal
I came across this interesting meme: google for the image that comes up first for your name. I was a little surprised by what "pz" returns, but I think it is entirely appropriate....
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:25 PM • 116 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
How peculiar — I've gotten several requests in email to comment on this plaint from Theodore Dalrymple, a fellow who doesn't like those "New Atheists" like Sam Harris and Dan Dennett. It's peculiar because I'm here at a conference with...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:14 PM • 213 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Administrative
I know, it's not very scary, but here's something that might strike terror into a few hearts: October 2007 has been Pharyngula's first million visit month. I remember the first month I broke 300 visitors (Woo hoo! Ten readers...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:28 AM • 62 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 30, 2007
Category: Academics
I found an article about new brain cells that I thought was really interesting. Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine discovered the mechanism behind how new neural cells are integrated into the adult brain. It turns out that new...
Posted by Lua Yar at 7:42 PM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Local
Tonight's the night for the inaugural meeting of Café Scientifique-Morris for the 2007-2008 school year. The topic is: Food or Fuel? A simple multi-scale integrated analysis of agroecosystems It will be presented by Abdullah Jaradat of the North Central Soil...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:25 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
Guilt-ridden Christian: If I don't obey God, he's going to make me suffer for all eternity. Evil-angelical Christian: I don't make you obey God, I'll be responsible for your eternal suffering. That link will take you to a despicably...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:05 PM • 333 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Organisms
If you are wondering who that little guy is on my shoulder, you need to be enlightened. Of course they're beautiful. I keep a model right next to my spring-loaded squid toy. So you want a closeup?...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:06 PM • 62 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academics
This is a troubling story if you just read the right-wing perspective: a student at Hamline University (an excellent liberal arts college in the Twin Cities) was suspended for writing a letter to the university administration. That shouldn't happen, I'd...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:53 AM • 272 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor
Who would win? I think this is he definitive answer....
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:00 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
Pope Ratzi confirms the bankruptcy of religion for me once again....
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:25 AM • 191 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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