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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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Category: Creationism
This argument is a new one on me. If you can't read it, click on it to see a larger original. I can try to summarize it, though. The middle finger is the longest finger on the human hand, and...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:17 AM • 94 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
The copy-&-paste creationist is a familiar figure in internet debates — they don't have an original idea in their head, but they know how to copy some long screed off the internet and paste it into a comment box, almost...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:32 PM • 91 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Science
Last week, I described the lectures I attended at the Chicago 2009 Darwin meetings (Science Life also blogged the event). Two of the talks that were highlights of the meeting for me were the discussions of stickleback evolution by David...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:13 AM • 31 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
I could only get two paragraphs into that sleazebag's reply in the debate about his Origin giveaway before I had to close the window and throw him away. A major concern of Genie Scott was that the copy of On...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:53 AM • 132 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
You've probably all heard by now that Ray Comfort is coming out with his own butchered version of Darwin's Origin, with big chunks cut out of it, and a deeply stupid introduction slapped on. It's within his rights to do...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:51 AM • 239 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Ron Numbers gave a brief history of creationism, reminding us that perhaps a majority of the people in the world reject Darwin, and he also emphasized a few facts in that history that many would find surprising. There was...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:45 AM • 126 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Answers in Genesis, that site that tries to promote an alternative view to natural origins, has put up an article to answer that question that I'm sure is pressing on everyone's mind as we get close to Halloween: Are...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:57 AM • 286 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
I'm going to be in this silly debate on "Should Intelligent Design Be Taught In The Schools?" with creationist kook Jerry Bergman on 16 November, sponsored by CASH and the local Kook Central. The latest hangup, though, is that the...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:48 PM • 151 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
I almost forgot — in 1658, Archbishop Ussher determined that the world was created precisely at 9am, 23 October, 4004 BC, making today the official creation day, and the earth 6012 years old. Stop laughing, people. There are some who...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:25 PM • 86 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Whoa. Richard Dawkins appeared on the Hugh Hewitt show. Hewitt, in case you didn't know, is one of those far right radio wingnuts, a lawyer with a blog who defended George W. Bush, the Iraq war, and always sides...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:52 AM • 208 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
