Travelin' Man

Shouldn't be bad, as long as you let them know about it first.
And if it's an early class, that's bonus points for you. Trust me. My 8 am lecturer sometimes misses classes... and when he lets us know beforehand, we're all very very happy.

Boston!? My physical body lives in Boston!

Why, and my corporeal form will also transiently manifest itself in Boston! Alas, it's a blitz -- I get in in the early evening for dinner, then flit away late the next morning for home.

Hi PZ - From the for-what-it-is-worth department...
I have had my head stuck in the pro-ID camp for six months (mostly DI, UD and Telic Thoughts). Not because I agreed with them, I wanted to understand them. I can report you definitely make a big impression there. ;)

Recently, I have been looking for new blog homes to haunt. These last few posts of yours have made an impression on me. I find it difficult to see how anyone can justify an accusation that you are unethical. How could anyone get a mistaken impression you aren't stating your honest opinions? I looked at your About description. I liked part about the random quotes...

Some people find some of them offensive; so do I. I do not agree with every one of them, but just find them thought-provoking, or humorous, or unbelievable...so don't bother complaining to me.

I suspect your students really like you. Your passion is boundless. This blog is a job and a half all by itself. My attempts at "Provoking Thought" pales next to yours.

My hat is off to you, sir.

Speaking of corporeal form, Dinesh D'Souza, who is quite the expert on theology, claims that angels have no corporeal form, and therefore an infinite number of them can dance on the head of a pin.

The Texa Legislature takes next step to theocracy.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/04220…

I knew thee was a reason I left Texas.

What you did last week will probably have no effect on your evaluations. It's what you did in the first few seconds of the first class of semester.

students arrive at opinions about teachers within seconds of being exposed to these teachers. The students' impressions are highly correlated with end-of-semester ratings generated by other students who had these same teachers for an entire course

(link)

Frightening, isn't it?

Egads! PZ in Boston! Will our quaint little town survive this brush with Satan's Bulldog?

Shame you can't stick around longer, there are a bunch of us godless folk in town who would gladly buy you drinks. SWEET TESLA, YOU'RE TURNING DOWN FREE BEER.

I think we'll be ok. Sam Adams wasn't exactly an evangelist.

I'm starting to love, not loathe, Mr. D'Souza. He's a one-man, Onion-headed circus of self-parody.

And given the premise that there are spiritual beings called angels, my conclusion [which is that an infinite number of angels can dance on the head of a pin] follows inevitably. You see, my atheist friends, it's a simple matter of logic.

I can do that, too! "Given the premise that god is a human construct and has never existed in any realm other than the imagination of the believer, my conclusion [that belief in god is a delusion] follows inevitably."

Inevitably, I say!

Here's another one: "Given the premise that a man's ego and capacity for nonsense are infinite, my conclusion [that the number of foolish ideas that his head can contain is limitless] follows inevitably."

And, like Egnor, he equates abstracts like consciousness and human rights (in which atheists "believe") with things like the soul and immortality (in which they do not). He equates provisional disbelief based on total lack of evidence with faith, and in doing so conflates that disbelief with a claim of absolute certainly of god's non-existence.

(Was it Egnor? They're all blending into one big DI-nty Moore in my brainpot. Help!)