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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
…and this is a pharyngula stage embryo.
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Susie: You'd get a good grade without doing any work.
Calvin: So?
Susie: It's wrong to get rewards you haven't earned.
Calvin: I've never heard of anyone who couldn't live with that.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
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October 31, 2006
Category: Creationism
So I was way too depressing in that last post. Here's one of those little notes of hope that we hear too rarely—an Ohio Republican using her reason to back the best candidate for a job, even if he is...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 5:32 PM • 50 Comments •
Category: Creationism
I have to disagree with Red State Rabble and his announcement of the demise of Intelligent Design. We're seeing signs of a shifting of strategies, the fading of a few personalities, and a little confusion on the part of our...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 3:32 PM • 65 Comments •
Category: Academics
Wow. Our very own Shelly Batts is a finalist in competition for a blog scholarship. Help out a promising young neuroscientist and Vote Shelly! It is also an interesting turn to make blog popularity, as measured by a poll, the...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 12:54 PM • 18 Comments •
Category: Weirdness
It belongs to The Poor Man Institute, dressed up as Powerline. It's terrifyingly detailed and accurate....
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Posted by PZ Myers at 12:41 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: Creationism
In the ongoing Hovind trial, no new revelations except for more details about how rich the creationist con artist and tax evader is. He makes $50,000/year in speaking fees, and with his wife, sells $1.8 million/year in "Christian merchandise" (tell...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 9:48 AM • 38 Comments •
Category: Creationism
A reader in Canada just let me know that CBC Radio 1 will broadcast a program on creationist museum tours sometime this morning (between 9:30 and 10...the timezone is unclear). I won't be able to listen because I'm going...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 9:40 AM • 15 Comments •
Category: Science
This is a gross violation of my expectations: the Halloween edition of The Synapse doesn't even once crack a zombie joke. I was terribly disappointed. At least it does serve up a nice platter of brains....
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Posted by PZ Myers at 9:03 AM • 7 Comments •
Category: Kooks
If you're a fan of mangled philosophy and patent falsehoods, you really must read the Biblical view of science. It's crazily disconnected from anything close to describing how science actually works. What then is the Biblical view of science? Science...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 8:26 AM • 77 Comments •
Category: Politics
Matt Yglesias comments on one of Amy Sullivan's usual complaints about "secular liberal intolerance" in the most cynical, hypocritical way possible: Now Amy's right. It would be useful, for the purposes of electoral politics, for liberals in the media to...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 6:00 AM • 37 Comments •
October 30, 2006
Category: Godlessness
Rosenhouse plans to review the reviews of Dawkins' The God Delusion this week, and he's already off to a scathing start. Pop the popcorn, and sit back....
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Posted by PZ Myers at 8:46 PM • 22 Comments •