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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It is scandalous that any modern, intelligent, well- educated person should believe in Christianity.
[Delos B. McKown, Ph.D., U.S. professor, philosopher, author, Former clergyman]
Polar lobes and trefoil embryos in the Precambrian
The proper reverence due those who have gone before
Modeling metazoan cell lineages
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July 31, 2008
Category: Godlessness
I must confess to a cruel game with this post. I saw this poster and thought, "What? But most of these people weren't atheists!" Surely someone could do a far better job with this idea than that, and everyone...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:46 PM • 504 Comments
Category: Humor
The gang at Bakersfield that ran one of the polls we contributed to has noticed, and they feel violated. Mildly. And with a little good humor. I guess we'll have to do it again sometime!...
Posted by PZ Myers at 5:22 PM • 88 Comments
Category: Books
I published a review in Nature this week, of Ken Miller's Only a Theory(amzn/b&n/abe/pwll), and boy, was that a tough one. The catch was that I want the book to do well, and I definitely think it has a place...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:08 PM • 147 Comments
Category: Development • Evolution • Molecular Biology • Organisms • Science
Ontogenetic allometry in the fang in the front-fanged Causus rhombeatus (Viperidae) displaces the fang along the upper jaw. Scale bars, 1 mm. We note the change in relative size of the upper jaw subregions: i, anterior; ii, fang; iii,...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:05 AM • 185 Comments
Category: Pointless polls
Here's one way to foil a pharynguloid poll invasion: limit your poll answers to those that aren't even wrong. Try to answer the question of"When does life begin?" — your only choices are at birth, at conception, at some stage,...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:50 AM • 235 Comments
July 30, 2008
Category: Kooks
Perhaps you remember Karl — I ripped into an interview he did a while back. Well, "ripped into" is probably the wrong phrase — I pointed out several things I thought were quite good, and then tore up his...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:57 PM • 594 Comments
Category: Administrative
No, not that kind of host. Our scheduled host for the Tangled Bank had to back out due to time constraints. If anyone wants to volunteer to host it next Wednesday, let me know and I'll forward the entries to...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:34 PM • 161 Comments
Category: Entertainment
The Michigan festival is apparently going to be showing BIll Maher's new movie, Religulous. I'd like to hear if it's any good, just to know how much I might suffer when I do go see it. And see it I...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:23 PM • 60 Comments
Category: Organisms
I was asked to contribute to Forbes Magazine package on commuting — never mind that I live across the street from my job, and "commuting" has become a trivial, alien concept — so I had to talk about animals that...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:37 PM • 49 Comments
Category: Pointless polls
So how about this one: Should atheists be barred from public office? It's mostly going our way already, but would you believe a quarter of the votes so far say "yes"?...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:33 PM • 275 Comments
This story is in the news again, so I've reposted my description of the paper from 3½ years ago. This is an account of the discovery of soft organic tissue within a fossilized dinosaur bone; the thought at the...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:07 AM • 54 Comments
Category: Organisms
It seems to be an evolving tradition around here to put descriptions of our medical adventures online. Janet contributes with a an account of her recent mammogram. I was disappointed — there are no pictures. Hey! I'm scheduled to have...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:44 AM • 82 Comments
Category: Chatter
An organization of the Catholic leadership has now condemned my actions. This is sad news: it's clear that at least this tier of the Catholic hierarchy is as deranged as the wackaloons flooding my mailbox. We find the actions of...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:16 AM • 917 Comments
July 29, 2008
Category: Entertainment • Evolution
The warm-up act for this program was a dinosaur program called "Jurassic Fight Club", which was loaded with CGI and lots of gratuitous razzle-dazzle — but I thought it was a hoot. It also had enthusiasatic scientists talking about how...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:50 PM • 184 Comments
Category: Weirdness
Would you believe the NY Times published an op-ed today…calling for closer monitoring of UFOs? I think it's intended seriously. It begins by suggesting that it — our neglect of will-o'-the-wisps and reflections of Venus — is a security...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:45 PM • 169 Comments
Category: Science
It's the much anticipate first episode of a new series, Evolve - Eyes. They are one of evolution's most useful and prevalent inventions. Ninety five percent of living species are equipped with eyes and they exist in many different forms....
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:37 PM • 208 Comments
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