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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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Since it has been a long time since I contributed any content to Pharyngula…here's something. I was asked to give a brief talk on the ship, so I've tossed my written draft below the fold. With these short talks...
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Posted on August 17, 2008 7:37 PM • 43 Comments
It's on the internets. The opening is something that I can't imagine flying by on American television: he simply says that evolution is a vastly superior explanation to anything religion has ever provided....
Posted on August 6, 2008 5:22 PM • 281 Comments
Whoa, Charlie Booker's review of a new documentary on Darwin really makes me want to see it. Darwin's theory of evolution was simple, beautiful, majestic and awe-inspiring. But because it contradicts the allegorical babblings of a bunch of made-up old...
Posted on August 3, 2008 9:41 AM • 110 Comments
Somebody is publishing private letters! Of course, these are 186 year old private letters from a 12 year old Charles Darwin, and they're very amusing. I guess he wasn't a fan of bathing, and later wasn't shy about trash-talking his...
Posted on July 18, 2008 1:16 PM • 39 Comments
If you're listening to Atheists Talk radio right now, you've been hearing a lot about the secular intent of the founding of the US government. The LA Times has an article on the Jefferson Bible — that greatly abridged version...
Posted on July 6, 2008 10:29 AM • 85 Comments
It was on 1 July 1858, 150 years ago today, that the idea of natural selection was first presented to the public in a joint reading of Darwin's and Wallace's papers at the Linnean Society of London (an event which...
Posted on July 1, 2008 9:05 AM • 57 Comments
Except, unfortunately, what the heck it was. The Tunguska event was the mysterious explosion of unidentified origin that occured in a remote area of Siberia on 30 June 1908, flattening trees over 2000 square kilometers, but leaving no trace...
Posted on June 30, 2008 11:31 PM • 77 Comments
Olivia Judson hits exactly the right note in her article about Charles Darwin and the coming centennial year of The Origin: brilliant fellow who revolutionized our thinking, but he wasn't the only one and he definitely wasn't the final word...
Posted on June 18, 2008 11:38 AM • 86 Comments
Carl Sagan tells us what we can yet lose to fanaticism and ignorance....
Posted on June 13, 2008 8:38 AM • 115 Comments
Find out for yourself. Darwin Online has acquired a huge digital collection of Darwin's papers, everything from book drafts to personal letters, and has them scanned and available on the web. There they are in all their scribbled, crossed out,...
Posted on April 17, 2008 7:54 AM • 30 Comments
Wilkins tagged me. It's all his fault. This is supposed to be a historical meme…why bother me with this? I think it's because philosophers have a professional obligation to annoy people with weird questions, and Wilkins takes personal pleasure in...
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Posted on February 25, 2008 11:44 AM • 87 Comments
Here's a cool animation of the progress of the Civil War — it's like the Confederacy is a giant gelatinous red blob spread over the South, punctuated with explosions as it occasionally makes amoeboid protrusions into the North, only to...
Posted on December 20, 2007 1:57 PM • 142 Comments
I have to consider this a rather dispiriting story: In 1818, a whale oil dealer refused to pay a fish-product fine on whale oil, because a whale isn't a fish. The inspector insisted on the tax, and a spirited court...
Posted on December 12, 2007 2:37 PM • 42 Comments
Yesterday, I hopped into the black evo-mobile and made the long trek to Minneapolis to witness another creationist make a fool of himself. As is my custom when traveling alone, I like to crank up the car stereo until the...
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Posted on December 1, 2007 12:12 PM • 98 Comments
Today is the anniversary of the delivery of the Gettysburg Address, which, even if the content weren't gloriously beautiful, would deserve eternal recognition as an exemplary reminder to speech makers of the virtues of brevity. You should at least...
Posted on November 19, 2007 2:07 PM • 61 Comments
