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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure.
[Francisco Ferrer]
November 30, 2007
Category: Science
Since Phil has suggestions for holiday telescope shopping, I have to offer some suggestions for microscope shopping. If you really want to get a kid interested in biology, a microscope is a great gift, but I'll give you the price...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:23 PM • 157 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
A reminder: tonight is the creationist schlockfest at the University of Minnesota. Smart people will meet at the Campus Club, on the fourth floor of the Coffman Union, between 5:30 and 6:45, for pre-seminar preparation. See you there!...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:29 PM • 32 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
Let's ruin a perfectly pleasant Friday with a poll full of ugly reality. The poll of 2,455 U.S. adults from Nov 7 to 13 found that 82 percent of those surveyed believed in God, a figure unchanged since the question...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:00 PM • 154 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kooks
Good news, everyone! In a new encyclical that reveals the papacy is feeling the heat from all those vocal atheists, the pope makes a startling admission: Reciting arguments made by atheists, he said: "A world marked by so much injustice,...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:35 PM • 47 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Mark Mathis, the guy who did the interviews for the creationist movie Expelled, has been doing the Christian talk radio circuit lately. He was on in the Twin Cities yesterday, although I missed it … but he's about to go...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:24 AM • 65 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
So this young man, Dennis Lindberg, refused a blood transfusion and died. This was a completely useless, futile death; it wasn't a sacrifice that helped someone, and it was avoidable by a routine medical procedure. So what could possibly have...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:34 AM • 295 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Art
Cute, weird collection of bug art. This was painted by a cockroach?...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:04 AM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 29, 2007
Category: Creationism
Texas Citizens for Science has posted a summary of the political pressures: TEA has a new policy, one of neutrality between biological evolution and Intelligent Design Creationism. This new policy was put in place when Dr. Don McLeroy--an outspoken Creationist...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:16 PM • 72 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Weblogs
Congratulations to Abel Pharmboy on reaching 105!...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:48 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
It's ben a terrible couple of days for Christianity — I've gotten an awful lot of e-mail reporting indiscretions by those trusted members of the clergy. Rev. Don LaRose/Rev. Ken Williams, lunatic who abandoned his family and changed his...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:46 PM • 67 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
