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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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In the infancy of new religions, the wise and learned commonly esteem the matter too inconsiderable to deserve their attention or regard. And when afterwards they would willingly detect the cheat, in order to undeceive the deluded multitude, the season is now past, and the records and witnesses, which might clear up the matter, have perished beyond recovery.
[David Hume, "Of Miracles"]
April 30, 2011
Category: Environment
This video begins with a clip from Glenn Beck which nearly had me running away screaming, but stick with it — it thoroughly explains the false scandal....
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:49 AM • 296 Comments •
Category: Godlessness
Read the latest from Gregory Paul and Phil Zuckerman. Are we smug and arrogant? Damned right, and with good reason. A growing body of social science research reveals that atheists, and non-religious people in general, are far from the unsavory...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:41 AM • 101 Comments •
Category: Ethics
It's always interesting when some god-walloper honestly follows through on the logical implications of his beliefs — he basically is compelled to admit that if you worship a tyrannical monster, you have to end up rationalizing monstrous tyrannies. The latest...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:58 AM • 271 Comments •
Category: Open Thread
I've done this 200 times now? (Last edition of TET; Current totals: 12,283 entries with 1,355,799 comments.)...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:57 AM • 671 Comments •
April 29, 2011
As you know by now, we're in a fierce competition between myself, the mega-behemoth of godless blogging, against a ragtag flock of motley pee-wee bloggers, all to raise money for Camp Quest. I am privy to certain emails that...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:35 PM • 24 Comments •
Category: Entertainment
HBO has this show now — you've heard about it? — recreating a most excellent fantasy series by George R.R. Martin. I enjoy a good fantasy story, and I think Martin is a fabulous writer…but man, I read the books,...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:06 PM • 260 Comments •
Category: Godlessness
I've been asked to compete in a fundraising contest for Camp Quest. But look what they did to me! Five awesome atheist bloggers are competing to see who can raise the most money to support Camp Quest! Since one...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:26 AM • 62 Comments •
Category: Cephalopods
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:03 AM • 16 Comments •
April 28, 2011
Coral Ridge Ministries, that awful fundagelical organization founded by D. James Kennedy, has "discovered" a couple of former workers willing to testify about the evil practices of Planned Parenthood. "They have an abortion budget and they have a certain...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:03 PM • 201 Comments •
Category: Academics
Ellen Lewin is a professor in the anthropology department at the University of Iowa. Like all of us, she is constantly dunned with email announcing this, that, and the other thing at our universities, and sometimes we get email that...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:57 AM • 573 Comments •
