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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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Even many of those who claim to believe in immortality still tell themselves and others that neither side of the question is susceptible of proof. Just what can these hopeful ones believe that the word "proof" involves? The evidence against the persistence of personal consciousness is as strong as the the evidence for gravitation, and much more obvious. It is as convincing and unassailable as the proof of the destruction of wood or coal by fire. If it is not certain that death ends personal identity and memory, then almost nothing that man accepts as true is susceptible as proof.
[Clarence Darrow, "The Myth of Immortality"]
Category: Open Thread
This thread is useless. I must have another. And it must be sound…and young. If only I can keep it going until… (Hey, does anyone else think Colin Clive was drunk as a skunk when he did this scene?...
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Category: Open Thread
This train keeps rolling on into nightmare. It's…it's immoral. But it's also a fact. Carry on, passengers....
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Category: Open Thread
Greetings, my friend. We are all interested in this thread, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the...
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Category: Open Thread
Aaaaiaiaiaiieeeeeeeeeaaaah! Make it stop, mommy, make it stop!...
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Category: Open Thread
I've got a franchise, I guess. The Thread That Will Not DIE is going to go on and on. I've once again closed the old thread, and here you go, more fresh virgin database entries to despoil. Go ahead and...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:34 AM • 1007 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Open Thread
I've just seen Mooney and Kirshenbaum's latest eruption of petulance, and I also see that people are commenting away in various threads here. I really can't get to it until later, and I can't say that I'm enthusiastic about addressing...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:17 PM • 431 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Open Thread
How many birthday salutations will appear in this thread? If you deserve a greeting for a recent birthday, you can speak up here, too....
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Category: Open Thread
IT'S STILL ALIVE! Once again, the never-ending open thread has topped the 1K mark, and is now being closed…to be reborn here once again, I'm sure. I'm trapped in an old Hammer film with Christopher Lee!...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:31 PM • 1029 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
The simple summary: As the video says, the country is shutting down the flow of information, clamping down on the internet — that alone would tell me that something nasty has been going down in the government there. Information...
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Category: Open Thread
The endless thread continues. Our creationist cretins in the old thread are still jabbering away, making progressively less sense as time goes by, and various sub-themes continue to branch from it, but I can't keep track of it all. Talk...
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