Up on the rooftop…
Category: Cephalopods • Humor
Posted on: December 15, 2007 1:32 AM, by PZ Myers
All those kids who are expecting a white-bearded fat man to drop down the chimney are going to get a surprise on 'podmas.
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal

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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When I reached intellectual maturity and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist, or a pantheist; a materialist or an idealist; a Christian or a freethinker; I found that the more I learned and reflected, the less ready was the answer; until, at lat, I came to the conclusion that I had neither art nor part with any of these denominations, except the last. The one thing in which most of these good people were agreed was the one thing in which I differed from them. They were quite sure thay had attained a certain 'gnosis,' — had, more or less successfully, solved the problem of existence; while I was quite sure I had not, and had a pretty strong conviction that the problem was insoluble. And, with Hume and Kant on my side, I could not think myself presumptuous in holding fast by that opinion.
Thomas Henry Huxley, "Agnosticism" Agnosticism and Christianity and Other Essays (1889, Buffalo, NY: Prometheus, 1992), p. 162.
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Category: Cephalopods • Humor
Posted on: December 15, 2007 1:32 AM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: Nike | December 15, 2007 1:58 AM
Is that squiddly diddly?
Posted by: 2 | December 15, 2007 2:09 AM