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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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April 30, 2008
Category: Creationism
After all the pious nonsense from certain quarters blaming scientists for the Holocaust and other atrocities, it seems appropriate to take note of the Anti-Defamation League's response: The film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed misappropriates the Holocaust and its imagery as...
Posted by PZ Myers at 5:36 PM • 259 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Last December, I mentioned the case of a creationist named Nathaniel Abraham who was fired from his job at Woods Hole — he had the gall to apply for a post-doctoral position in an evolution and development lab, and the...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:22 PM • 124 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cephalopods
Why is it that every time a journalist writes about large squid eyes, they've got to compare them to dinner plates? It's so trite. How about hubcaps? Frisbees? How about just giving the dimensions and leaving it at that? Oh,...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:27 AM • 132 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
My last Seed column is online, which reminds me (as if I weren't uncomfortably aware already) that I have to finish up the next one today, which actually isn't the next one, which is already done and submitted, but the...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:20 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Academics • Religion
Wheaton has a good academic reputation, but man, it's the little things that make it frightening. I would not want to live in the theocratic world it represents. Hank Fox has a couple of stories about Wheaton. The first is...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:08 AM • 226 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Here's an interesting review of the movie that gets Carroll's perspective on it. It mostly gets it right, especially in its argument that this movie is an attempt to swiftboat science. "If you have a losing hand, you're going to...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:36 AM • 53 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 29, 2008
Category: Humor
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:14 PM • 63 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
I don't know about this. All this concentrated wit and venom in one place could be dangerous … and three straight hours of Pat Condell? Whew. Get copies for your local ministers, and either they'll die of fuming apoplexy...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:01 PM • 78 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Since I changed my profile photo, the ideas for radical revision of the site have come pouring in. Here's a possible new logo: What do you think? I thought it was keen, until I read all the new speculation...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:03 PM • 107 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Prayer doesn't work. Enshrine it in the law — prayer is not a helpful action, but rather a neglectful one. Teach it in the schools — when the health class instructs students in how to make a tourniquet or do...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:59 AM • 498 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cephalopods
…that the colossal squid is dissected and displayed by webcam to the world. It's also the day I'm in class from 10:00 on, and have a Café Scientifique to attend, as well as another job candidate seminar, so I'm going...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:19 AM • 42 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Evolution
I have to criticize the video below. It's a beautiful piece of work, and the animal it shows is spectacularly well-adapted, but it does not demonstrate the fulfillment of a uniquely Darwinian prediction. An orchid was found with a nectary...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:03 AM • 58 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 28, 2008
Category: Kooks
I thought Jebons were supposed to be a joke … so what is this lunatic ranting about? Warning: this is from GodTube, so unless you've got a fair amount of tolerance for crazy, deluded talk, you might not want to...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:24 PM • 239 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor
Remember that poll we crashed over the weekend? Apparently, whoever is administering that web page went to work today, approved a bunch of new suck-up comments, and deleted it. Heh. You can still view the poll at polldaddy: 98% (418,948)...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:59 PM • 71 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
Matt Taibbi went off on a three day Christian retreat, and discovered how ridiculous they are…but he also discover the deep emotional, anti-intellectual pull of these kinds of events. By the end of the weekend I realized how quaint was...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:53 PM • 377 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Stupidity
It's criminal to ruin the brains of children. He definitely has some talent, though. Should I adopt his rhetorical style for my classes?...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:00 PM • 120 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
