Now on ScienceBlogs: Casual Fridays: What makes a good writer, and what motivates them?
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.
• a longer profile of yours truly
• my calendar
• Nature Network
• RichardDawkins Network
• facebook
• MySpace
• Twitter
• Atheist Nexus
• the Pharyngula chat room
(#pharyngula on irc.synirc.net)
• Quick link to the latest endless thread
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
[Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), U.S. campaigner for women's rights. Free Thought Magazine (Sept. 1896)]
April 30, 2009
A Pew poll finds that church attendance is correlated with willingness to torture. More than half of people who attend services at least once a week -- 54 percent -- said the use of torture against suspected terrorists is "often"...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:49 PM • 213 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The province of Alberta has decided to make education optional. If there's something in the real world that you don't like, such as that you evolved from other apes, or that gay people exist, or perhaps that understanding the motion...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:04 PM • 390 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Weirdness
My heart skipped a beat, I pressed a knuckle to my mouth, my eyelashes fluttered wildly as I tried to hold back my tears as I read this cutting review: Mr Geoffrey Deene of Fashion Wire Daily, I still think...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:19 PM • 59 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
I know it hurts, it hurts so bad, but I have to ask you again to keep clicking to help me win that iPod Touch from Eric Hovind. It's only a little pain, after a few clicks you'll be...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:17 PM • 35 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Skepticism
The Huffington Post has been getting a lot of grief around scienceblogs lately, since they've been letting some astounding woo slip through under the guise of medicine and science. Now it is partly explained: their "wellness" editor is Patricia Fitzgerald....
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:01 PM • 126 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Wow. I thought it was amazing that Paul Nelson had taken 5 years and counting to get around to explaining ontogenetic depth, but that's nothing: he has been promising a monograph on common descent for eleven years. If his wife...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:06 PM • 34 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Melanie Phillips is irate. Why? Because Ken Miller says Intelligent Design is nothing but creationism relabeled. Miller is right, Phillips is once again raving in ignorance. In an item on the growing popularity of Intelligent Design, John Humphrys interviewed Professor...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:03 PM • 178 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
There's a funny Cat and Girl comic that makes fun of our success as atheists, saying that we've gone mainstream. Read it, I got a chuckle…but one of the panels listing factors in our loss of indie cred says, "We...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:11 AM • 118 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
What do Louis Pasteur, Robert Boyle, Charles Bell, William Kirby, James Clerk Maxwell, and George Washington Carver all have in common? They all have facebook fan pages…created by the Institute for Creation Research! Carver is representative: here's the kind of...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:26 AM • 66 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It looks like trouble, and some ministers are defending the proposed blasphemy law — you people aren't going to let this violation of civil rights pass, are you? We have some more details on the law, too: it authorizes fines...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:45 AM • 106 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
