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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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Roman sources that mention him [Jesus] are all dependent on Christian reports. Jesus' trial did not make headlines in Rome, and the archives there had no record of it. If archives were kept in Jerusalem, they were destroyed when revolt broke out in 66 CE or during the subsequent war. That war also devastated Galilee. Whatever records there may have been did not survive. When he was executed, Jesus was no more important to the outside world than the two brigands or insurgents executed with him — whose name we do not know.
E.P. Sanders, The Historical Figure of Jesus (New York: Penguin, 1993), p. 49.
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Posted on: January 15, 2008 4:43 PM, by PZ Myers
I beat poor Phil Plait in another of those "best science blog" awards. Of course, we both creamed Ars Technica, Gizmodo, and Endgadget — those guys must not have even noticed the competition. Hey, I barely did.
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Comments
Posted by: Scholar | January 15, 2008 4:45 PM
Evil biology beats good astronomy any day.
Posted by: Seamyst | January 15, 2008 5:46 PM
That's a pretty fair beating, too, with a much more comfortable margin than the last one. And good grief, did you both ever cream the other blogs! Impressive.
Posted by: Richard | January 15, 2008 6:22 PM
Who votes for Engadget in a science category?
"Oh look, this new version has TWO superfluous LEDs in it."
About as sciencey as an Intelligent Design conference.
Posted by: Phil Plait | January 15, 2008 7:19 PM
Given how much more traffic you have than I do, you didn't beat me by enough to represent that, so in reality I won.
But dangit, I was gonna post about this today but then a bunch of stuff hit the fan. Oh well.
Posted by: Crudely Wrott | January 15, 2008 10:24 PM
Hearty congratulations and a heart-felt attaboy to you, PZ.
I thank you from my top of my cerebral cortex down to my reptilian brain stem for your intensity and dedication. I visit daily and am the better for it. I don't know how you manage to pull it off and still fulfill your professorial duties.
When I grow up I want to be somewhat like you.
It goes without saying that those who gather here are a force slightly larger than you, but without you it wouldn't happen.
May you live (and post) long enough to leave the entire population of the planet utterly speechless. That would be one hell of a moment, know what I mean?
Posted by: Bob O'H | January 16, 2008 1:03 AM
Not to put a dampener on it, but you came a long way second in the Most Controversial Blog category. I think you might have to try harder this year.
Hmmm. I suggest that sometime in June you start supporting front-loading and Mick Huckerbee. Oh, and convert to a militant form of Sikhism.
Bob
Posted by: John Bode | January 16, 2008 11:26 AM
Given that Ars Technica isn't a blog, and that its traditional focus was somewhat narrow (PC hardware enthusiast), I'm curious why it was in the running at all.
Having said that, Ars has some damn good tech reporting, and has fairly recently added some good science reporting (Nobel Intent). They also have a forum devoted exclusively to science topics.
Posted by: Rita Bennett | January 16, 2008 1:00 PM
#5 Crudely Wrott
What he said.
Posted by: Isaah | January 16, 2008 7:40 PM
While i read this blog religiously (badabump bump), i love the Giz. In a mix catagory of science and technology, they should have one. They blog like its going out of style. they have alot of updates per day. plus, they just the other day told a bunch of other blogs and press to hop of the teets of the industry, regurgitating their press releases.
...this was of course after a Giz blogger brought a TV-b-Gone to CES and started temporarily switching off halls of TVs.
THATSAWESOMEOMG!
but i still love you PZ, just less than my technopr0n.