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What was Carl Sagan's perspective on religion, according to his widow? "Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.
Ann Druyan (Carl Sagan's widow)
January 30, 2006
Category: Politics
Remember these names when Alito screws us over. These are the ones who didn't even try to stop him. Akaka, Daniel K. (Coward-HI) Baucus, Max (Doormat-MT) Bingaman, Jeff (Toady-NM) Byrd, Robert C. (Ditherer-WV) Cantwell, Maria (One-termer-WA) Carper, Thomas R. (Lickspittle-DE)...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:14 PM • 35 Comments •
Category: Godlessness
I sat down and watched both episodes of Dawkins' series, The Root of All Evil? this weekend (because I can!), and I have to say…I liked it very much. I've already commented on the first episode, and if you want...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:59 PM • 41 Comments • 2 TrackBacks
Category: Politics
It's got everything a fascist dictator might want in a law. A new provision tucked into the Patriot Act bill now before Congress would allow authorities to haul demonstrators at any "special event of national significance" away to jail on...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:05 PM • 18 Comments •
Category: Academics
I will join the chorus in praising Bérubé's essay on academic freedom. It's excellent; now if only the people most desperately in need of reading it weren't barely literate anti-intellectual thugs, it would be an awesomely persuasive rhetorical tool....
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:01 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Creationism
John Lynch catches Dembski getting all breathless about a class in Switzerland that includes a lecture on ID. Big whoop, John says, he teaches it, too. So do I. Why wasn't Dembski announcing this glorious victory last semester, when I...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:05 AM • 21 Comments •
Category: Weblogs
I gave up on caffeine this past summer—I actually cut it off cold turkey for a good long while. I'm backsliding a bit now, though, just because my early morning teaching schedule has me feeling mostly exhausted all the time...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:08 AM • 17 Comments •
Category: Godlessness
An Angry professor led me to an article on Inside Higher Ed, which discusses a document by the Wingspread Conference by the Society for Values in Higher Education (pdf). I knew when I saw the word "Values" up there that...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:33 AM • 37 Comments •
January 29, 2006
Category: Creationism
I was not alone in receiving a silly survey from an ID creationist: Tara, Mike, John, and Wesley all got it, and all rejected its premise. I'm joining in the universal dismissal. If you're curious, I've put the "survey" below...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:26 PM • 32 Comments •
Category: Creationism
I guess I'm not the only fan of the weirdness that is Jim Pinkoski—another collection of Pinkoskisms has been unearthed at Ooblog....
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:19 PM • 31 Comments •
Category: Politics
The Committee to Protect Journalists lists 61 reporters killed in Iraq, 13 killed by the US. Iraq, the most dangerous place for journalists in 2005, also became the deadliest conflict for the media in CPJ's 24-year history. A total...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:44 AM • 10 Comments •
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