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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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Thus no clear criteria of evidence, logic, or certainty separate religion even from its supposed antithesis, science. Instead, they are separated most sharply by their attitude toward anthropomorphism: science tries to avoid it, while religion takes it as foundation.
Stewart Guthrie, Faces in the Clouds: A New Theory of Religion (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), p. 196.
Category: Medicine
Mondays are my long, long days — this is the day I get to spend 3 hours talking to students in small groups about cancer (they're young and invincible, so so far it hasn't been as depressing as I feared.)...
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Category: Pointless polls
I saw the movie Contagion last night — it's good, but chilling. You are at the mercy of viruses that are evolving far faster than we are, and our lives depend on the luck of our genetics, the random permutations...
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Category: Entertainment
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Category: Entertainment
Some people are planning to make a sequel, another 13 part series, to Carl Sagan's Cosmos. This may be a greater heresy than giving Star Trek a reboot with a time-travel movie, or turning Star Wars into Jar Jar...
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Category: Science
I shall have to turn on my television Sunday evening (7 or 8pm, depending on where in the US you are). Stephen Hawking will be on the Discovery Channel to answer the question, "Is There a Creator?" — I'm pretty...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:12 AM • 115 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Books
Over the course of the last few weeks, I have dragged myself through George R. R. Martin's latest, A Dance with Dragons, the fifth book in his Game of Thrones series. I'm done. No more. I'm not reading any of...
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Category: Skepticism
What is it with all the quacks on daytime TV?...
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Category: Entertainment
I finally saw Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides tonight, and I've got to say…Tim Powers was robbed. It was a mess of a movie that wobbled from point to point, with no sense behind it, and a...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:34 PM • 97 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Entertainment
O Delight! Savage interviews Minchin. It's beautiful. I'm also very sad. Minchin is coming to Minneapolis…on the same weekend I have to be in Las Vegas for TAM. Or I'd be there. You other Minnesotans better buy out every ticket...
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Category: Entertainment
The new threat to humanity and specifically New York: A glacier. A really, really fast glacier. I hope everyone involved in creating it is really, really ashamed....
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