Category: Creationism
A few people (actually, a lot of people) have written to me asking me to address Kirk Durston's probability argument that supposedly makes evolution impossible. I'd love to. I actually prepared extensively to deal with it, since it's the argument...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 9:33 PM • 169 Comments •
Category: Weblogs
…that today is GrrlScientist's birthday. You should go over there with a cake and some presents, or at least some good wishes....
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Posted by PZ Myers at 3:43 PM • 12 Comments •
Category: Religion
Aren't you excited? The Superbowl is tomorrow! OK, I know, most of you probably don't care. I know I don't; tomorrow is a lab prep day for me, and I'll be setting up fly stocks all afternoon. I don't...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 3:31 PM • 154 Comments •
We have a Vermont alumnus among the ScienceBorg: Kevin Beck at Dr Joan Bushwell's Chimpanzee Refuge. He'd like to coordinate a letter-writing campaign to protest UVM's poor choice of a commencement speaker, so maybe you should go over there and...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 9:18 AM • 109 Comments •
Category: Creationism
Guess who UVM is bringing in to deliver their commencement address? Ben Stein. I am very sorry, seniors at that otherwise fine university. You're going to have a hack wingnut with a history of incompetence at economics, politics, and science...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 8:09 PM • 281 Comments •
Category: Evolution
Ahh, listen to the sense as well as the pleasant accent… (via 100 Days of Science)...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 4:15 PM • 93 Comments •
Category: Humor
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Posted by PZ Myers at 3:56 PM • 36 Comments •
Category: Godlessness
Buses must be militant atheists, because pretty soon they're all going to be sporting declarations of godlessness. The latest nation to jump on the bandwagon is Brazil. If you can read Portuguese, you can go direct to the source...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 12:32 PM • 84 Comments •
Category: Religion
We've been seeing an amazing amount of press given to something as simple as atheist signs on public transport, and here's another thing that makes the apologists for religion tear their hair out: Russell's teapot. They don't get it....
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Posted by PZ Myers at 11:37 AM • 597 Comments •
Category: Religion
The ACLU is suing Union Public School Independent District No. 9 of Oklahoma. The reason is bizarre: administrators at the school have harrassed and violated the civil rights of a young woman named Brandi Blackbear because — and I'm a...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 7:36 AM • 231 Comments •