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Religion has no place in public schools the way facts have no place in organized religion.
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Category: Godlessness
Are you ready for the hot new game of the 2006 Christmas season, Left Behind: Eternal Forces? Imagine: you are a foot soldier in a paramilitary group whose purpose is to remake America as a Christian theocracy, and establish its...
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:00 PM • 91 Comments •
Category: Godlessness
I almost forgot: there was another comment in the Karen Armstrong interview that I found irksome…but my complaint is mainly with the interviewer. Here's one question he asked her, and her answer. But certainly there are a lot of people...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:17 PM • 17 Comments •
Category: Godlessness
Salon has an interview with Karen Armstrong, and I don't know whether the interviewer just did a poor job or whether her ideas really are that sloppy and confused. She definitely has interesting ideas about religion, but while she's dismissing...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:00 AM • 23 Comments •
Category: Godlessness
I've received a personal email from Rabbi Avi Shafran—the fellow whose graceless and ignorant opinion piece I criticized a while back. It's a peculiar thing: he wrote a public editorial, I criticized it publicly, and now he asks that we...
Posted by PZ Myers at 6:00 AM • 77 Comments •
May 29, 2006
Category: Organisms
Lots of people have been sending me the link to the Vintage Octopus Pulp Covers site. It's very cool. It makes me wonder why so many people are infatuated with cephalopods, though. Weirdos....
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:59 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: Personal
Creek Running North has a guest blogger this week, and she has asked for inspirational stories to help her get started. So here's a little motivational tale from my undergraduate days about my love for animals, and how I...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:00 AM • 14 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: Organisms
Once upon a time, there was teeny-weeny adorable little fish called Paedocypris. Then, one day, a population of bulldozers invaded their habitat, and they couldn't compete, and they died. The good news, though, is that a new species of...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:34 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Creationism
Just a quick update: you may remember Linda Schrenko, the creationist and Georgia state school superintendent who was indicted for embezzlement (or you may not; she is a rather minor figure in the creationism wars, notable only for blatant corruption...
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:04 AM • 8 Comments •
May 28, 2006
Category: Organisms
I never heard of this before: there exists a rare, giant, albino earthworm in the scrub prairies of the Palouse. It grows to be 3 feet long, and smells like lilies. I scarcely believed it myself—that's also Sasquatch country...
Posted by PZ Myers at 5:56 PM • 20 Comments •
Category: Personal
On a warm and lazy holiday afternoon, determined to avoid any exertion and relax in my easy chair, I was contemplating something easy on the brain: beauty. I have no idea what makes something beautiful, but I could at least...
Posted by PZ Myers at 3:07 PM • 40 Comments •
