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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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It is true, of course, that the phrase 'separation of church and state' does not appear in the Constitution. But it was inevitable that some convenient term should come into existence to verbalize a principle so clearly and widely held by the American people…. [T]he right to a fair trial is generally accepted to be a constitutional principle; yet the term "fair trial" is not found in the Constitution. To bring the point even closer home, who would deny that "religious liberty" is a constitutional principle? Yet that phrase too is not in the Constitution. The universal acceptance which all these terms, including "separation of church and state," have received in America would seem to confirm rather than disparage their reality as basic American democratic principles.
Leo Pfeffer, Church, State, and Freedom (Beacon Press: Boston, 1967).
Category: Academics
Lots of people have been sending me this paper by Erik Andrulis, and most of you have done so with eyebrows raised, pointing out that it's bizarre and unbelievable; some of you wrote asking whether it was believable, at...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:35 PM • 55 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kooks
Every time I mention the fact of global climate change, the denialists start sending me furious emails. (By the way, I know that AGW is "anthropogenic global warming"; what is CAGW?) I think we can safely say that AGW believers...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:14 AM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kooks
In a previous "I get email" post, I mocked this bizarre list of 50 "proofs" that god exists: they were all nonsense and non sequiturs and bizarre falsehoods. The author actually dragged out the Lady Hope story as evidence for...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:21 PM • 27 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Bad science
Do these claims make you at all suspicious? A few people on Twitter told me I should look into this panacea. Cures heart disease! Eases anxiety and depression! Removes unsightly moles! Arthritis! Snoring! Diarrhea! Acne! Diabetes! Removes warts! Mighraines! Lose...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:48 PM • 46 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Bad Science
Kitties experience pain and suffering, which turns out to be a theological problem. If a god introduced pain and death into the world because wicked ol' Eve was disobedient, why is god punishing innocent animals? It seems like a...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:21 AM • 268 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Creationists have this idea that history can be nothing but an unremitting decline — their version of the second law of thermodynamics is a weird thing that has everything ratcheting down into chaos equally, with no possibility of local decreases...
Posted by PZ Myers at 5:27 PM • 40 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kooks
Shorter Deepak: "Richard Dawkins didn't endorse my quantum bullshit, therefore The Magic of Reality sucks!" Deepak Chopra actually sounds quite upset — his review of the book reads more like the indignant squawk of a charlatan furious that the...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:23 AM • 794 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
It's hard to believe, but yes, there are Christians who are even worse than Ken Ham, and even more ignorant. Here's one: Pastor Don Elmore of Union, Kentucky. He's written a revealing screed against Answers in Genesis. It starts gently...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:03 PM • 37 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Bad science
We've got another chittering weasel of a creationist raving in the comments, a fellow going by the name YesYouNeedJesus. He's also sending me email. PZ, I first heard about you on Bob Enyart's radio show about the fact that...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:56 PM • 282 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Kooks
The court-required month-long psychiatric evaluation of Dennis Markuze is complete, and the diagnosis is "Bi-polar, compounded by alcohol and substance abuse". He is now in a substance abuse rehab center, with another court date scheduled for 2 December. It sounds...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:25 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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