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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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…if I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul.
[Isaac Asimov, I. Asimov: A Memoir]
March 31, 2008
Category: Carnivals
The latest edition of Encephalon, the carnival of neuroscience, is using Paris Hilton as a theme, I think because the contrast is so great. It still hurts to read it. I did find Jennifer Ouellette's pocket biography of Ramon y...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:33 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
Hey, I said that in an interview last spring, which is getting a little wider circulation now: religions are fairy tales. Somebody slapped it on a billboard over Easter, though, and businesses around it reported a two-thirds decline. It...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:17 PM • 113 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kooks
Watch out, if you signed up for one of the Expelled showings, you might find your email address shared with more people than you expected. I think John ought to sell his newfound mailing list — it's jam-packed with the...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:37 PM • 57 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
What an awful story: a young woman is murdered by her own father for online chatting. A woman was beaten up and shot dead by her father for talking online with a man she met on the website Facebook. The...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:12 PM • 151 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Local
Hey, look at this: Dan Dennett is coming to Minnesota State University in Mankato this week. I hope he shows up wearing that pimpin' hat. Dennett, one of the nation's most original and influential philosophers, will talk about "Religion as...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:41 AM • 67 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor
OK, enough. Everyone is sending me a link to this comic, but your efforts are misplaced. You need to send it to Ben Stein or Mark Mathis or Walt Ruloff — I'm not in the market....
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:05 AM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 30, 2008
Category: Godlessness
Michael Egnor, that neurosurgeon whose tenuous grip on rationality makes him so popular with the creationists, thinks he has a gotcha moment with some notorious atheist. That rude godless fellow, who is me, said this, which is accurate: …greater science...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:54 PM • 270 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Personal
I'm home. It's been a very long day with horrible flight delays, and I'm grouchy. I must frog blast the vent core. I was stuck on an airplane for far too many hours, and I wanted to get some work...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:42 PM • 80 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor
You know that if I encourage this sort of thing, there will be a rising chorus of voices on the web screaming at me to shut up, don't you?...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:06 AM • 52 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
Don't forget: Atheists Talk radio at 9am Central time!...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:00 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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