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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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Fantasy and precision go together, and fantasy stands there with the air of an eyewitness. Fantasy fills in all of knowledge's gaps, and not with coarse strokes but with the fine touches of a miniaturist. Witnesses often know more about an episode twenty years later than they did immediately afterward. So whenever we find precise details, a certain amount of caution is always called for. It might be mere fantasy. The exactitude of the eyewitness and that of fantasy are hard to tell apart.
Uta Ranke-Heinemann, Putting Away Childish Things (San Fransisco: Harper Collins, 1994), p. 92.
Upstream plasticity and downstream robustness in evolution of molecular networks
Chelifores, chelicerae, and invertebrate evolution
A quick reply to some of the arguments made recently
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 • 15 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 • 114 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!...
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