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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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The priesthood have, in all ancient nations, nearly monopolized learning. And ever since the Reformation, when or where has existed a Protestant or dissenting sect who would tolerate A FREE INQUIRY? The blackest billingsgate, the most ungentlemanly insolence, the most yahooish brutality, is patiently endured, countenanced, propagated, and applauded. But touch a solemn truth in collision with a dogma of a sect, though capable of the clearest proof, and you will find you have disturbed a nest, and the hornets will swarm about your eyes and hand, and fly into your face and eyes.
[John Adams, letter to John Taylor]
June 30, 2007
Category: Science
Peggy has an excellent discusion of the peculiar attitudes towards biology held by physicists and engineers, which includes this wonderful complaint by Jack Cohen: In summer 2002, I was at the Cheltenham Festival of Science. Lots of biologists presenting, for...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:00 PM • 286 Comments •
Category: Personal
Yes, I am away for this week — I'm off wearing flannel, listening to grunge, and drinking coffee as I chop down trees in the rain (did I miss any stereotypes?). Updates to Pharyngula will still happen, though, so...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:30 PM • 23 Comments •
Category: Creationism
I have to go catch a plane to Seattle, so I'll leave you all with a little exercise. This random bit of creationist email just sailed in over the transom—it's simple and to the point, and isn't even afflicted with...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:00 PM • 60 Comments •
Category: Evolution
What properties should we expect from an evolved system rather than a designed one? Complexity is one, another is surprises. We should see features that baffle us and that don't make sense from a simply functional and logical standpoint. That's...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:10 AM • 49 Comments •
Category: Carnivals
Carnivals! We're hawking Carnivals! Carnival of Mathematics XI Friday Ark #145 I and the Bird #52 The next Tangled Bank will be held on Wednesday, the 4th of July, at Aardvarchaeology. Send those patriotic, all-American links in to the Swedish...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:43 AM • 20 Comments •
June 29, 2007
Category: Creationism
A rather unsavory character, Dr Johannes Lerle, was jailed in Germany for violating their laws against neo-Nazism and Holocaust denial. I discussed this earlier this week, and as Gerard Harbison and Andrew Brown have recently pointed out, he was not...
Posted by PZ Myers at 5:05 PM • 61 Comments •
Category: Creationism
You may recall that I'd mentioned how Cheri Yecke was hiring a company called "reputationdefender" to expunge unflattering references from the net. One of her targets was Wesley Elsberry, who had reported that she was in favor of allowing local...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:38 PM • 33 Comments •
Category: Weblogs
The ScienceBlogs buzz today is on Atheism and Civil Rights, and the opening blurb gets it wrong. Richard Dawkins and other contemporary atheists have argued recently that America's faithless are subject to discrimination akin to that faced by women, racial...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:10 PM • 14 Comments •
Category: Weirdness
I guess y'all are having a drought, and your farmers are worried. I sympathize, and I do hope you get some good healthy summer storms soon. But, well, your governor is a dufus. With the state's weather forecasters not delivering...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:48 PM • 87 Comments •
Category: Academics
The Nevada System of Higher Education wants to arm their faculty. That's insane. We have rare instances of students going on a shooting spree; I don't see how turning the classroom into a firefight is going to stop that, and...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:28 PM • 177 Comments •
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