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How is this for an intro?
The "magnificent P-Zed Myers," as he's known by Richard Dawkins, is a fearless heathen. The tagline of his blog Pharyngula reads: "Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal." He's publicly desecrated the Eucharist and been chastised by the Catholic League's Bill Donohue, bucked down libel suits, received countless death threats from religious kooks and he can kick God's old, white ass with nothing but his mind. Myers teaches biology at the University of Minnesota, Morris. We decided to give him a call.
The rest of the interview may not live up to that level of hype, but then, I was being interviewed by the infamous Dougie, and I was concerned about not overwhelming his special needs.
Comments
Posted by: myaparmnt | September 22, 2008 9:30 AM
Ah... fist at last
Posted by: LisaJ | September 22, 2008 9:31 AM
Wow, that is fantastic! You should be very proud of yourself, P-Zed.
Posted by: clinteas | September 22, 2008 9:31 AM
The guy seemed rather friendly towards you PZ lol...
And,"fearless heathen"sounds so medieval...
Posted by: Zeno | September 22, 2008 9:37 AM
God's ass -- if he has an ass (in man's image) -- has to be really, really old. But does it also have to be white?
Off topic: My blog is due to receive its 200,000th hit sometime today. I'm not sure how to celebrate this completely insignificant base-10 milestone. Perhaps I'll turns some of these student math quizzes I have here into confetti (with virtually no impact on the grades of the students involved), but then how would I dump it on my 200,000th visitor. It's a problem! [/blogwhore]
Posted by: Greg Laden | September 22, 2008 9:39 AM
Chuck Norris, move over...
So, what does PZ Myers have behind his beard?
A chin? No! He hase another argument against religion behind his beard!
Posted by: Aaron | September 22, 2008 9:40 AM
that made me snort. :D
Posted by: S.Scott | September 22, 2008 9:41 AM
Made me LOL! :-)
"On a scale from 1 to 10, how awful was Ben Stein's Expelled?
I haven't seen it yet."
Posted by: wazza | September 22, 2008 10:00 AM
Zeno, at His age, it should be green, and wrinkly, like an olive that's been left out in the sun too long but with less actual power.
Posted by: JStein | September 22, 2008 10:08 AM
God's ass... I just wonder what happens when the omnipotent one farts. It seems like a terribly unpleasant idea.
Anyway, that was just a thought.
Posted by: Holbach | September 22, 2008 10:08 AM
Ha, love it! The photo of the dinosaur and Ken Hambone at the Deranged Museum has to be specific in noting that the moron is at right! It should have been captioned: "Pick the real dinosaur; Hint: one has a brain the size of a walnut, the other has religion!
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp, KoT | September 22, 2008 10:18 AM
It's called Christian Rock.
Posted by: Epinephrine | September 22, 2008 10:22 AM
Thanks for the link to Dougie's site - reading about crashing the creation museum opening had me crying, I was laughing so hard.
Posted by: Simon Coude | September 22, 2008 10:30 AM
Fantastic interview, I found it really entertaining. =)
If you want to find more stupid things the media do, we have a newspaper here in Canada called "Le Journal de Montréal" that has the horoscope of every party leader. (We're in election too...)
They literally gave an astrologer the power to switch the voting intentions of people. That is more than stupid.
Posted by: co | September 22, 2008 11:07 AM
Am I allowed to be laughing that hard at work? Dougie (and his super-special website) is my hero.
Posted by: yttrai | September 22, 2008 11:44 AM
That site is blocked at my work for "pornographic content".
Now i'm DYING to see what occurred!
:D
Posted by: Trish | September 22, 2008 11:45 AM
My sides hurt. I had never seen that interview with Ham I Am, and the Creation Museum. I'm crying over here. That has to be the funniest thing I've seen, besides Palin, in at least 100 days. Now I know why I hang around this place.
Posted by: Randy | September 22, 2008 12:01 PM
@myaparmnt
'First' at last.... And you blew it.
Posted by: Ibid | September 22, 2008 12:34 PM
Which came first, the chicken or the chicken egg?
The egg came first.
It was laid by something that was almost but not quite a chicken. The differences were minor enough that biologists could spend decades and dozens of conferences debating whether the parent would be classified as a chicken or a proto-chicken.
Posted by: Romeo Vitelli | September 22, 2008 12:54 PM
"The egg came first."
It was just laid by something that tasted like chicken.
Posted by: Morejello | September 22, 2008 1:04 PM
The opening line of that made me think of nothing so much as Terence Stamp posing, saying "KNEEL BEFORE P-ZED!"
Posted by: BobC | September 22, 2008 1:07 PM
PZ explains how to debate a creationist:
You can take an entirely reasonable point of view, which is that they're morons, and you just make that clear.
Good advice in my opinion.
Posted by: themadlolscientist, FCD | September 22, 2008 1:49 PM
You mean like this?
Good ansuh!
Posted by: Pharma Girl | September 22, 2008 1:53 PM
Loved this interview. My personal favorite question:
"Have you ever been caught ridin' dirty?"
LMAO.
Posted by: heathenish | September 22, 2008 2:23 PM
Mr. Murphy is responsible for multiple hilarious and biting hijinks aside from the great "Dougie goes to the Creation Museum" epic. These include an infiltration of the Church of Scientology, an amazing pair of Mayoral pranks (which culminated in getting the Mayor of Ottawa to negotiate rigging the NHL playoffs on tape), and canoeing across Lake Erie into Canada and back to prove that the millions being spent on border security there are wasted. The guy is a nut, but his work is delightful.
Oh yeah, this prank phone call to the 700 Club's dial-a-prayer hotline was pretty great too.
Posted by: Sili | September 22, 2008 4:14 PM
Far be it from me to poor cold water on the celebrations</lie>, but the point is that Life is chiral, not racemic.
Posted by: AlanWCan | September 22, 2008 4:43 PM
I thought that was just a reference to Bill Donohue...or maybe Pat Robertson. Both white. Both asses.Posted by: john | September 22, 2008 4:54 PM
For someone who claims to want this issue to be over, you sure like to bring it up over and over again. Then again, self promotion is what you are really all about. As to your "atheism"... it is obvious that you believe that God does exist and that fact pisses you off. Your own language on this site and your radio appearances give that away. You, sir, are a fraud.
Posted by: JHS | September 22, 2008 5:33 PM
If McCain wins, I for one will welcome the coming of our mathifying canine overlords.
Posted by: Hugo | September 22, 2008 6:27 PM
He he!
Brilliant, P.Z.!
Just what I needed :D.
Posted by: David Marjanović, OM | September 22, 2008 6:35 PM
If you were interviewed and had a blog, wouldn't you mention it?
Regarding the more ridiculous claims, I should remind you that you have fallen among the scientists. You can't just say "it's obvious". You have to show that it's actually the case. Go ahead, we'll wait.
Posted by: Sauceress | September 22, 2008 6:41 PM
The Beast
Reminded me of this...
"Transgendered Sea Anemone Denounced As 'Abomination' By Clergy"
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/transgendered_sea_anemone
Posted by: Kel | September 22, 2008 6:52 PM
That intro is awesome. Really awesome.
That would make for an awesome epitaph.Posted by: SC | September 22, 2008 7:43 PM
Kids just don't get that message enough these days.
Posted by: DangerAardvark | September 22, 2008 9:54 PM
"If a fish turns into a hermaphrodite it doesn't mean you have to be a hermaphrodite either."
Whew, that's a load off my mind.
Posted by: craig | September 23, 2008 12:06 AM
I too have been featured in the Buffalo Beast several times.
Well, if the letters section can be considered "featured."
Posted by: craig | September 23, 2008 12:22 AM
Oh and also, super smart dogs are NOT a scary idea, as dogs are pretty reliably more moral than humans. Dogs is good people.
Posted by: Tall | September 23, 2008 6:09 AM
"Satan was in this phase where he was really into caviar, or something"
Strange but true... as I read that my inner voice modulated it so that it sounded like George Carlin... I'm still laughing.
Thank you PZ...
Posted by: Sili | September 23, 2008 12:46 PM
Actually, God didn't have a white ass, he deliberately had his
henchmendisciples go steal him one.