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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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How do we account for the current paranormal vogue in the popular media? Perhaps it has something to do with the millennium - in which case it's depressing to realise that the millennium is still three years away.
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Category: Humor
Answers in Genesis has begun a goofy little campaign called I AM NOT ASHAMED — they're apparently collecting videos of people declaring their shameless adoration of Jesus. Ho hum. All I can say is that they should be deeply embarrassed...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:08 AM • 71 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Gosh. I have been informed that yesterday's posting of my crazy email was too, too harsh, and that I'm such a meanie. Well, I resolved to be much nicer as I worked my way through my neglected in-box, so here...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:31 PM • 243 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kooks
Jerry Coyne has unearthed a few maggoty tidbits about Rod Dreher, the Templeton director of communications. It seems the Templeton Foundation has been padding his credentials a bit, claiming that he is a 7-time nominee for a Pulitzer Prize. Dreher?...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:15 AM • 45 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kooks
Freeman Dyson (with whom I have many disagreements, so don't take this as an unqualified endorsement), wrote an interesting article that predicted, in part, a coming new age of biology. I think he's entirely right in that, and that...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:51 PM • 183 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
The other day, I got a request for an interview: a reporter was writing a story about Ken Miller. I was happy to do so — this was clearly going to be a friendly piece about Miller, and I...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:14 PM • 471 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kooks
Chopra has another mindless post on the HuffPo, titled Only Spirituality Can Solve The Problems Of The World. I read the whole thing. He's got some fuzzy definitions, praises god-consciousness, gushes about love, joy, kindness, peace, etc., but overall, it's...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:45 AM • 155 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
It's tough to tread that line between contempt and admiration: Jerry Coyne writes about the Templeton journalism awards. It really is a smart move on the part of the Templetonites to coopt journalists to sell their bankrupt line by tossing...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:06 PM • 32 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kooks
Another day, another outraged Christian. Parents in a Utah school district were horrified to discover a link on the district web page to an evil essay: The new battle centers on a link on the district's Web page that was...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:00 AM • 86 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kooks
So I just put up this lengthy gripe about Fodor and Piattelli-Palmarini, and there were a bunch of other things I wanted to say that I couldn't squeeze in, so here are a few left-over comments. The best take-down...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:44 PM • 139 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kooks
Renew America, the bizarrely, deeply, weirdly conservative web site founded by Alan Keyes, really had to struggle to find someone crazier than Pastor Grant Swank and Fred Hutchison and Bryan Fischer and Wes Vernon (let alone Alan Keyes himself),...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:13 PM • 159 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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