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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
[Wendell Phillips, Speech, 7 November 1860]
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Wow. Bill Donohue is going to love Andrew Brown. Brown has written a defense of the Catholic church titled "Catholic child abuse in proportion"; you can tell right away exactly where it is going to be going. 'Only' 4% of...
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Category: Reproduction
The Philippines has a problem with a rising number of AIDS cases every year, and members of the government have been promoting a sensible response: Health Secretary Esperanza Cabral has sponsored a program that distributes free condoms, for instance. You...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 7:37 AM • 39 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Pointless polls
There was this young child at a Catholic pre-school who was kicked out because his or her parents were lesbians. Now people are protesting, because that's not what Jesus would do (I won't quibble over their justifications — Jesus probably...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 11:38 AM • 91 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
There are two very encouraging facts about this article on scientology in the NY Times. One is that it got published. Once upon a time, newspapers and magazines hesitated to criticize scientology at all, because they'd immediately sic an army...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 10:12 AM • 68 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
It certainly isn't the Netherlands. This isn't news any more. News would be an official Catholic organization that wasn't a front for repressed perverts and apologists for child abuse....
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Category: Religion
A young child at a Boulder pre-school has been kicked out for an awful crime. The child was enrolled in a Catholic preschool, and also has two mommies. I'll leave you to guess which of those two is the awful...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 3:23 PM • 98 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
Back when we bought our house, one of the things that we liked about it is that it's a somewhat quirky place, with an odd layout and a few old 50s touches. One thing I didn't care for is the...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 8:14 AM • 81 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
Allow me to purge a few interesting stories from my mailbag: Keshia Canter was working the drive-up window at a burger joint when a sanctimonious customer handed her a pamphlet. Scripture tells us that when a man looks on...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 10:43 AM • 154 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
Or you will be exterminated! You know, Texas has a reputation of being a nasty place full of particularly ignorant rednecks, which I don't blindly agree with — I know too many smart Texans, and it does have many...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 8:53 PM • 271 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
…is that too often newspapers think you don't need a science journalist to write it. Any ol' hack will do. Take this article on evolution in the Vancouver Sun, which distills modern evolutionary biology into 12 theories, which happens to...
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