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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
[David Hume, Treatise of Human Nature (1739)]
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November 30, 2008
Category: Creationism
The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden and the Creation Museum have made a joint marketing agreement and are selling "combo tickets" to get into both attractions for one price. The Cincinnati Zoo is promoting an anti-science, anti-education con job run...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 11:13 PM • 349 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kooks
Look, I don't need this. It's been a rough weekend, with way too much travel for my mental and physical health, and I started off today with the Atheist Talk radio broadcast, which was good, but it was bracketed by...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 8:51 PM • 41 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
The conventional wisdom is that it was Vladimir Lenin, but officers in our military have access to secret knowledge, thanks to Rick Warren: it was actually Charles Darwin. We learn this from one of those ghastly power point presentations the...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 8:40 PM • 90 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
At 9am Central time, Atheists Talk radio will host Robert M. Price, who is going to explain to us where all this nonsense about biblical inerrancy came from....
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Posted by PZ Myers at 9:07 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 29, 2008
Category: Pointless polls
George Docherty, a pastor who claimed to have been responsible for convincing congress to stick "under god" into the pledge of allegiance, has died. In his honor, and a fitting honor it is, AOL is putting up a stupid poll:...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 9:44 PM • 214 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Weirdness
And that means you're going to have to get your holiday greeting cards mailed off soon, if you want them to arrive before the Reason for the Season…Isaac Newton's birthday. Now I don't want to hear anyone waging war on...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 9:34 PM • 45 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
A Catholic abbot is accusing Disney of corrupting children. It's not because they are transmitting bad ideas, but that they are all tied to Disney's corporate motives. While he acknowledges that Disney stories carry messages showing good triumphing over evil,...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 9:25 PM • 77 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kooks
This isn't fair. Dawkins gets censored in Turkey, now Mike Haubrich gets a warning letter, and I get nothing other than invitations to debate Harun Yahya. I'm losing my mojo — I guess I'm not sufficiently scary to the...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 7:20 PM • 136 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kooks
When you first read this, you'll think the author has to be pulling our legs — it's got to be a satire site like Landover Baptist or something. But the woman sure does a fine job of maintaining a consistent...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 10:11 AM • 148 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
November 28, 2008
Category: Kooks
Well? Can you name a single terrorist attack on Kentucky soil? Hmm? (Aside, maybe, from the occasional abortion clinic bombing or KKK fear campaign, but since those are by home-grown white boys, they don't count). You can credit a law...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 5:20 PM • 158 Comments • 0 TrackBacks