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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
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The Bible is the authoritative Word of God and contains all truth.
[Pres. Bill Clinton, at a prayer breakfast]
April 30, 2006
Category: Science
In previous articles about fly development, I'd gone from the maternal gradient to genes that are expressed in alternating stripes (pair-rule genes), and mentioned some genes (the segment polarity genes) that are expressed in every segment. The end result...
Posted by PZ Myers at 12:00 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
Remember Melinda Barton and that awful piece on the Raw Story? It was taken down, and now it's back up with a few changes, I think. The editors asked me to submit a rebuttal. It's online at the Raw...
Posted by PZ Myers at 9:00 AM • 23 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
This is not funny. Five children between 9 and 16 years old died and several others suffered burns when lightning struck a white-painted metal cross set on a hill in the town of Santa Maria del Rio early on Sunday,...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:00 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Hurtling1 down the road in my black Chevy2, I laugh maniacally3. "Time to kick creationist butt4," I say, "and test the mettle of the Cheeseheads.5" I'm heading off to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point to minister to the...
Posted by PZ Myers at 5:00 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 29, 2006
Category: Weirdness
Grrlscientist is pushing another of those online quiz thingies—What's Your Theme Song?—and it was quick and easy, so I took it. Now I'm horribly scarred. Especially compared to my fellow science bloggers, I got a result that disturbs me deeply....
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:25 AM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
After sitting through Hovind's talk, I have seen the light. I've always been awfully hard on Christianity and Christians here, despising their beliefs and making mock of their nonsensical ideas and backwards social agenda. But this evangelist really reached out...
Posted by PZ Myers at 10:04 AM • 629 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
April 28, 2006
Category: Weblogs
My schedule is knocked all to heck today—there was some mess of an accident on I94 that cost me an extra hour and a half coming into the cities, and the cops in the U district sent me wondering all...
Posted by PZ Myers at 4:58 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
Be amused. The malevolent clown at Billy Dembski's blog has joined the blithering clown at Telic Thoughts in calling for my head, because I've admitted that I will vote on matters of substance and scientific validity in tenure decisions....
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:54 PM • 41 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
There's no doubt that Tony Snow is a creationist, especially not after Nick Matzke's interview....
Posted by PZ Myers at 2:22 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Organisms
This week's Friday Cephalopod is reader submitted. Sepioteuthis lessoniana And there's more at Andre Seale's gallery!...
Posted by PZ Myers at 7:00 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
