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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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Moreover, as regards those moral issues which are treated in the Bible, significant problems of interpretation often arise.
C. Stephen Layman, The Shape of the Good: Christian Reflections on the Fondation of Ethics (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame, 1991), p. 42.
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September 30, 2008
Category: Politics
We're worried about the current financial crisis — in fact, the whole world is concerned. Most of us have simple explanations for the mess we're in right now, such as excessive deregulation, lenders raking in short term profit at the...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:44 PM • 157 Comments
Category: Pointless polls
That is, Jenny McCarthy, ditzy mummy who opposes vaccinations because she thinks they cause autism, and Amanda Peet, smart woman who knows that inoculation is a great benefit. McCarthy has just sniped at Peet: "(Peet) has a lot of [nerve]...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:20 PM • 507 Comments
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It's snowing on Mars....
Posted by PZ Myers at 5:11 PM • 42 Comments
Category: Politics
Another interesting blog that has been around for some time is Charles Stross's — you ought to check it out, and the comments are often informative too. One in particular was brought to my attention — it's a comment made...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:43 PM • 178 Comments
Category: Academics
Jebus, but we're in for a world of trouble. I think one of the signs of the apocalypse is when instructors of dangeral studies revive moribund blogs. We're obviously in a cultural meltdown of epic proportions....
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:55 PM • 40 Comments
Category: Politics
Our campus has an alternative right-wing rag of a newspaper called the Counterweight, funded who knows how, that throws up horrible little articles that usually sound like the kind of thing that would make Karl Rove and Dick Cheney chortle....
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:24 PM • 67 Comments
Category: Creationism
The Brunswick school district in North Carolina was hurtling towards a lot of pain…and it's all thanks to the intransigent arrogance of the ignorant. There are some signs that they're going to see the light of reason, but there are...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:34 AM • 135 Comments
Category: Communicating science
Tuesdays are not relaxing days for me; this is the day of the week when I sink into long class sessions for hours at a time. Somehow, I also decided that the last Tuesday of every month was also going...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:15 AM • 7 Comments
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A recent survey in New Zealand reveals that only 40% of the people believe in a god, and 10% do but have doubts. Only 52% believe in an immortal soul, and 80% accept evolution. I marvel at that — a...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:31 AM • 172 Comments
Category: Evil
Only, of course, it won't be called an act of terrorism because the victims were Muslim, and the perpetrators were conservative white Americans. They sprayed gas into a mosque filled with kids. On Friday, September 26, the end of a...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:15 AM • 231 Comments
September 29, 2008
Category: Carnivals
While I was loitering aboard a big boat in California and hanging out with communists, I missed the latest sailing of the Elitist Bastards. It sounds like it was a ferociously snooty affair....
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:29 PM • 7 Comments
Category: Personal
I just received a big ol' mailing tube in the division office. The office staff made a little joke about how they'd rather I didn't open it there, just in case (the Catholics will be so happy — they've managed...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:23 PM • 34 Comments
Category: Politics • Stupidity
The mayor of Fort Mill, South Carolina forwarded one of those stupid chain emails that throws around absurd accusations — in this case, the Bible predicted that the anti-christ would be a Muslim in his 40s, and that Barack...
Posted by PZ Myers at 5:07 PM • 148 Comments
Category: Genetics • Personal • Science
This is a very simple, lucid video of Spencer Wells talking about his work on the Genographic Project, the effort to accumulate lots of individual genetic data to map out where we all came from. I've also submitted a test...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:13 PM • 71 Comments
I've barred the doors — I'm sure that any moment now, a squadron of goose-stepping nuns will come marching up the street to wag their fingers at me and rebuke me for what I've started. It seems the Youth...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:03 PM • 619 Comments
Category: Religion
…and this site is fertile ground for those seeking to spread the word of Jesus Christ. The readership here is far more in need of the word than Egypt, Colombia, Iraq, Solomon Islands, Malaysia, Zambia, Togo, Austria, Pakistan or Iran....
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:25 AM • 130 Comments
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