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PZ Myers is a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris.
…and this is a pharyngula stage embryo.
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August 31, 2009
Category: Politics
Kristin Maguire, chair of the South Carolina State Board of Education, has resigned from her position for all the wrong reasons. She has been a shill for the religious right, and has opposed the teaching of evolution in the public...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 6:00 PM • 270 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor
This is definitely not safe for work, but I had to include it because you just know the Catholic League will freak out over it. And remember: 30 September is International Blasphemy Day. What will you be doing to outrage...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 11:51 AM • 228 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
Steven Novella has an excellent analogy for the Sedalia evolution t-shirt nonsense: What if the Krishnas had complained about a t-shirt that showed a rocket going to the moon? Apparently, they don't believe in space travel at all, so it...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 11:40 AM • 70 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Humor
It's too accurate. That's not the punchline, either — it's just the setup. You'll have to read the whole thing. Don't miss the one right after it, either — it explains how science publishing works....
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Posted by PZ Myers at 11:25 AM • 38 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Organisms
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Posted by PZ Myers at 7:49 AM • 44 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 30, 2009
Category: Pointless polls
Via ERV and Coyne, I've learned that there was a poll associated with that story about the yanked evolution shirts for the Smith-Cotton band program. You must pharyngulate this poll! Should the Sedalia school district have pulled the Smith-Cotton High...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 10:20 PM • 143 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Godlessness
I'm sorry, you are all required to watch this video before doing anything else today. Don't worry, you'll enjoy it. Penn & Teller, Bullshit! The Vatican from Brewster on Vimeo. (via Atheist Media Blog)...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 12:22 PM • 321 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Creationism
This is the t-shirt worn by the marching band of Smith-Cotton high school of Sedalia, Missouri. The 'ascent of man' image is a bit irritating — it is a portrayal of a fallacious idea of directionality in evolution —...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 12:18 PM • 157 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Religion
The Pope has become an environmentalist, and he has figured out who is causing all our ecological difficulties: the atheists.Is it not true that inconsiderate use of creation begins where God is marginalized or also where his existence is denied?...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 11:35 AM • 126 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 29, 2009
Category: Entertainment
Whew, dodged a mistake — the movie is on RIGHT NOW! An alert reader caught me in time and let me know I live in the Central Time Zone. I haven't even touched the hooch yet. It starts with Deborah...
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Posted by PZ Myers at 9:04 PM • 152 Comments • 0 TrackBacks