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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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No matter how old we become, we can still call them [i.e., the super- dominant beings] 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them (or their agents, who often adopt similar titles for themselves).
[Desmond Morris, "Religious Displays," Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behaviour, 1977, Abrams, New York]
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The Reverend Peter Mullin doesn't like those darn pushy homosexuals — they must make him feel uncomfortable and all squirmy deep down inside. He wrote some amazingly stupid things about gays. The Rev Dr Peter Mullen said in an blog...
Posted on October 6, 2008 5:46 PM • 125 Comments
I get all kinds of personal requests — requests to flog someone's blog, links to articles people think are really neat, that kind of thing. I don't mind at all. If you think I'd be interested, go ahead, drop me...
Posted on September 15, 2008 4:35 PM • 236 Comments
Guest Blogger Danio, sneaking a few more posts in: Remember that execrable HHS policy document that proposes an extension of the current protections for health care workers who refuse to provide or assist in treatments that they personally find morally...
Posted on August 20, 2008 5:48 PM • 237 Comments
Good work, Canada, and it's an honor long due. Now 85, Morgentaler, a Polish Holocaust survivor who immigrated to Montreal after the war, opened his first abortion clinic in 1969 and performed thousands of procedures, which were illegal at...
Posted on July 8, 2008 9:38 AM • 124 Comments
…Republican Representative John Duncan of Tennessee. Confronted with a vast amount of evidence provided by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Public Health Association, the US Institute of Medicine , the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the...
Posted on April 24, 2008 12:55 PM • 98 Comments
Britain is experiencing some dissent over research on human-animal hybrid embryos. One the one hand, you've got researchers and charities arguing that this is a technique to probe deeper into the genetic and molecular properties of developing organisms, and is...
Posted on March 24, 2008 11:42 AM • 74 Comments
Fossils are cool, but some of us are interested in processes and structures that don't fossilize well. For instance, if you want to know more about the evolution of mammalian reproduction, you'd best not pin your hopes on the...
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Posted on March 19, 2008 12:15 PM • 85 Comments
Usually, when I read one of these common stories about people denying themselves reasonable medical care for religious reasons (such as the Jehovah Witness's proscription against blood transfusions, or the Christian Scientist's insane denial of illness altogether), I find...
Posted on March 12, 2008 3:50 PM • 126 Comments
The principal of a high school in Texas (where else?) is censoring the school's yearbook. Senior Megan Estes, editor in chief of The Elk, said the point of the article, featuring two seniors who also are teen mothers, was to...
Posted on March 2, 2008 5:02 PM • 134 Comments
It's been yet another long, long day — I was one of many invited speakers at a conference on Networks and Neighborhoods in Cyberspace at the Twin Cities branch campus of the University of Minnesota Morris, and I got...
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Posted on February 11, 2008 9:09 PM • 348 Comments
This is probably a serious site. Probably. It could be satire, but the line between satire and Christianity is razor thin. Read Christian dating tips, and judge for yourself. First rule of Christian dating: it's pretty much like going to...
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Posted on January 9, 2008 8:45 AM • 213 Comments
Sex education and humor … how can anyone object to this? I'm sure someone will....
Posted on December 4, 2007 11:18 AM • 15 Comments
A recent discovery in stem cell research is no minor event: researchers have figured out how to reprogram adult cells into a state that is nearly indistinguishable from that of embryonic, pluripotent stem cells. This is huge news that...
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Posted on November 21, 2007 11:37 AM • 86 Comments
A few little videos by way of the marvelous Kevin Hayden: Ladies, did you know that you are just like a cardboard box? We're supposed to treat you delicately and with respect, just in case you've got something in your...
Posted on November 19, 2007 10:37 AM • 29 Comments
The New Humanist has an article on genetic modification of human beings, addressing some of the reservations of critics. John Harris is primarily taking on Jurgen Habermas, who seems to think genetic engineering is yucky....
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Posted on November 9, 2007 5:20 PM • 108 Comments
