PZ on Mr. Deity

Nothing is to be held sacred, right?

PZ Myers has this thing he does on his blog. When he finds Internet polls, he gets them Pharyngulated. People put too much stock into these things, so he attacks them just to make a point. Any result is meaningless when it is had through the interwebbings.
But the normal point of attack is polls [...]

What defines religion?

Type “Atheism is” in Google search and the first thing you get is the suggestion “Atheism is a religion”. This is a common idea among those who have no operational (or theoretical) definition of religion. But how can it be a religion?
One of the other suggestions you’ll get is “Atheism is a religion like not [...]

PZ’s talk

I just got back from PZ’s talk. It was pretty exciting seeing a guy whose writing I’ve been following for such a long time.
He spent some time explaining explaining Crackergate. Really, when you hear it in person, it just gets all the most absurd. People actually believe he was holding Jesus hostage. One person asked [...]

Today

PZ is speaking in Lewiston Tuesday, September 29 at 5.

Psyched psyched psyched psyched
More travel this week: I’ll be in Lewiston, Maine to speak at Bates College, at 5 p.m. Tuesday, 29 September, in Room G65, Pettengill Hall. And from there I’ll be flying to Los Angeles for the AAI convention.
Lots of flight time is lots of writing time, right?
He’s also writing a book (hence [...]

Thought of the day

PZ Myers wrote about a new survey of religious beliefs. Read it, it’s good. But I especially like this reference to God.
Bearded Ape of Cosmic Proportions
But that isn’t completely accurate. All the concepts of gods so far have been rather small-minded and local so far.

For the sake of…Twitter?

Apparently FTSOS got a couple hits from Twitter. I’m curious which posts were linked and who did it. I encourage such activity greatly. Two million more times and I’ll be as popular as PZ.

The prof

A blogger once noticed that people who don’t like PZ Myers refer to him as “Paul Zachary Myers”. Now there’s a new level of contempt. Mark Looy of Ken Ham’s staff will only call him “the prof”
…He was standing with the prof and 10-12 SSA members, and I stopped to hear what was being said—especially [...]

Creationists hate honesty

It’s long been known that creationists love to quote-mine. They’ve long done it Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Gould, Albert Einstein, and plenty of other scientists in order to support their positions. No one is really all that surprised when they keep doing it again and again.
So it is nonchalantly* that I present yet [...]