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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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Such reports persist and proliferate because they sell. And they sell, I think, because there are so many of us who want so badly to be jolted out of our humdrum lives, to rekindle that sense of wonder we remember from childhood, and also, for a few of the stories, to be able, really and truly, to believe—in Someone older, smarter, and wiser who is looking out for us. Faith is clearly not enough for many people. They crave hard evidence, scientific proof. They long for the scientific seal of approval, but are unwilling to put up with the rigorous standards of evidence that impart credibility to that seal.
Carl Sagan
December 31, 2007
Category: Personal
I'm saying it a few hours early because when the clock ticks over to midnight I expect you all to be snogging or otherwise partying away, unless you're one of those sensible types who doesn't think having to get a...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:12 PM • 55 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Yikes. More Florida school boards — in St Lucie, Palm Beach, and Martin counties — are infested with creationists. Florida Citizens for Science is maintaining a watch list. So…have you checked your local school board? Do you have creationists biding...
Posted by PZ Myers at 5:14 PM • 46 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor
It's those poor creation scientists....
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:38 PM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor
I've been slacking off on Pharyngula lately — I've had a week to relax and get caught up on a few other things. Here, though, are a few links to ridiculous religiosity that have been piling up in the mailbox....
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:51 PM • 66 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor
I must confess: I've always identified with Gomez....
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:12 AM • 31 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Evolution
That friend to the Discovery Institute and creationist advisor to the Vatican, Cardinal Schönborn, has a new book out, titled Chance or Purpose?. I haven't read it, but Michael Behe has, and Zeno finds a particularly delicious Behe blurb: Science...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:31 AM • 164 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 30, 2007
Category: Religion
Elle Jacobson is a high school student who is skipping school because she's afraid of atheists. Some parents are joining in the fear, all because of one little incident: "This boy got up and his visual aid was a Bible...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:34 PM • 321 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor
One of my Christmas presents was something just for fun: Superman: The Dailies 1939-1942(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll). It's a collection of the newspaper strips by Schuster and Siegel that were published in the earliest years of the superhero, and they're both funny and...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:21 PM • 83 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
December 29, 2007
Category: Politics
OK, 'fess up — some of you know that I thoroughly detest libertarianism, that reactionary political movement that seeks to elevate greed and selfishness as a ruling principle, and I suspect one of you got me a subscription to Reason...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:20 PM • 541 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
One little post about waterboarding seems to have stirred up the mob, but at least the majority seem to agree that it is torture. How could it not be? It's a process for causing pain and suffering, nothing more....
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