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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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To think that the ruler of the universe will run to my assistance and bend the laws of nature for me is the height of arrogance. That implies that everyone else (such as the opposing football team, driver, student, parent) is de-selected, unfavored by God, and that I am special, above it all.
Dan Barker, Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist (Madison, WI: FFRF, 1992), p. 109.
Category: Science
Isn't that beautiful? It's an ancient footprint in some lumpy rocks in Kenya…but it is 1½ million years old. It comes from the Koobi Fora formation, familiar to anyone who follows human evolution, and is probably from Homo ergaster....
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:57 AM • 98 Comments •
Category: Humor
We can all take lessons from a certain cynical teddy bear....
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:58 AM • 42 Comments •
Category: Cephalopods
Cephalopod solidarity! (via Andre Seale)...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:25 AM • 32 Comments •
Category: Weirdness
Now this is just getting silly. An Islamic theologian has declared that using ethanol as a fuel is sinful. As if the debate around using ethanol to fuel cars weren't already complicated enough, now an Islamic scholar has suggested that...
Posted by PZ Myers at 1:05 AM • 109 Comments •
February 26, 2009
Category: Cephalopods
An enthusiastic cephalopod jumped the gun on their plan for world domination. An octopus today managed to pry loose a water-control valve at the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium, flooding the facility with more than 200 gallons of saltwater. If you're...
Posted by PZ Myers at 11:52 PM • 31 Comments •
Category: Religion
The UN has passed an absurd resolution that tries to make defamation of religion illegal. No more blasphemy for us! At least a Canadian spokesman has the right idea. "Canada rejects the basic premise that religions have rights; human rights...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:23 PM • 384 Comments •
Category: Science
The media is getting another science story wrong. I keep seeing this discovery of an array of fossil placoderms as revealing the origins of sex, and that's not right. Sex is much, much older, and arose in single-celled organisms....
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:30 PM • 74 Comments •
Category: Creationism
After all, he says nice things about me and not-so-nice things about Ben Stein....
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:57 PM • 17 Comments •
Category: Creationism
I was wondering why Harun Yahya kept sending me new copies of his remarkably tedious tome, the Atlas of Creation. It turns out he's been busy expunging it of embarrassing errors, like the infamous caddis fly fishing lure presented as...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:50 PM • 78 Comments •
Category: Creationism
Anytime something wrong happens, there is a Christian who will blame it on atheism and evolution. The latest is the case of the foolish woman who kept an adult chimpanzee as a pet, and got badly mauled for her trouble....
Posted by PZ Myers at 8:38 AM • 165 Comments •
