Tag Archives: PZ Myers

Cows with Guns

PZ Myers recently expressed his pos­sible capit­u­la­tion to the veget­arian diet, and invoked one of those hell­storms of com­ments from those who would defend meat eat­ing. I am still read­ing through the com­ments to see which one can pos­sibly jus­tify me return­ing meat to my diet — and am frankly quite dis­ap­poin­ted at what I

Most Environmentally Sound Disposal Method

To dis­pose holy books in the most environmentally-friendly way, while mak­ing a point about their utter use­less­ness at best, and dan­ger­ous tools for legit­im­iz­ing viol­ence and hatred at worst — PZ Myers arrives at a poetic solu­tion. No descrip­tion necessary.

Speaking Truth to Absurdity

There have been recent argu­ments, which I have myself encountered, on why I should bother chal­len­ging the pre­vail­ing views of oth­ers; why I should attack their cher­ished beliefs although they claim to have done noth­ing to attack my beliefs. A recent debate comes to mind which didn’t even qual­i­fied as a debate as a tone-troll

PZ Myers: Nothing Evolved for a Purpose

PZ Myers, web­mas­ter of Pharyn­gula, bio­lo­gist, and asso­ci­ate pro­fessor of the Uni­ver­sity of Min­nesota, Mor­ris, has uploaded an inter­est­ing topic worthy of per­usal. It is about exapt­a­tion, explained via the evol­u­tion and the devel­op­ment of the nervous sys­tem. He goes on to explain how evol­u­tion is not pur­pose driven, but is a cooption of exist­ing