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• New Flow Chart Maps Out Gay Marriage Debate

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  New flow chart posted on Sciene Blogs by PZ Myers maps out the various arguments for and against gay marriage in one big flow chart.Full Story from Science Blogs: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/12/the_same-sex_marriage_debate_g.phpClick here f... New Flow Chart Maps Out Gay Marriage Debate is a post from ...
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• Gay marriage debate, meet Afghan war strategy

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 651
  Flow charts can simplify any contentious issue, domestic or international. Take the gay marriage debate and Afghan war strategy  …  please . These two particularly exquisite flow charts turned up over the last day or so: one from the Joint Chiefs of Staff that explains the counterinsurgency effort in ...
  5 days ago

• New Atheistland Watch: Bryan Appleyard Owns PZ Myers—Again!

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 437
  I love Bryan Appleyard’s eloquent retorts to the blistering rhetoric coming out of New Atheistland. Here’s Appleyard today on PZ Myers’s scientism: [M]ention intelligent design and the likes of Myers will be hurling abuse. But I gather from reading John Gribbin’s superb exposition In Search of the ...
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• Meet PZ Myers

  
  My Point Exactly — Authority: 131
  New Scientist magazine profiles one of my favorite bloggers, PZ Myers, the University of Minnesota biology professor who writes Pharyngula . Key quote: In Pharyngula, Myers campaigns for evolutionary science, takes aim at creationists and proselytises for atheism while ridiculing religious beliefs with a sharp ...
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• Because Thanksgiving Needed A Scrooge, Mayhap

  
  The New Ledger Chequer-Board — Authority: 144
  I give you P.Z. Myers : This whole notion that one should have vague and aimless feelings of gratitude for the nature of one’s existence is just too weird, and the bow-your-head-at-the-table and radiate-blessings-at-the-cosmos tradition is pointless and silly. Don’t get me wrong: I can be appropriately and ...
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• Creation vs. Evolution Watch: A Trojan Horse at UCLA?

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 437
  This past week a group of Evangelicals came onto the UCLA campus in Westwood and gave away 2000 free copies of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species (1859). But, as usual, there is a catch to such things. The edition of Darwin’s book was accompanied by a fifty page Introduction dissing the theory of evolution! ...
  2 weeks ago

• Darwins "Origin" doctored by evangelicals visiting U

  
  City Pages - The Blotter — Authority: 718
  Creationists bring their battle against science to the University of Minnesota.
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• The Problem Of The Oblivious White Male Skeptic? A Response To Pharyngula And SkeptiFem

  
  PodBlack Cat — Authority: 473
  Firstly, I’d like to thank both PZ Myers and ‘SkeptiFem’ for inspiring what I think I’ll present upon at a conference next year. I think I have something to say on this topic, which is clearly of interest to people. I’ve written about women and skeptics before (in fact, Feministing even responded to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Carbon 14 Is Irreducibly Complex

  
  Tangled Up in Blue Guy — Authority: 120
  Image via Wikipedia Some Strange Ideas I’ve been an active reader and participant in the rhetorical wars of Creationism for at least ten years now. I have heard and read some very good arguments, at least logically placed if not based on any sort of experimentation, but at least relating to already ...
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• AM.MN: Why not T-Paw on a sofa with a button undone?

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 651
  “ Why not a picture of Tim Pawlenty with an unbuttoned shirt relaxing on a couch in the Twin Cities? ” That’s what the Christian Broadcasting Network’s White House correspondent asks in an outraged response to Newsweek putting a photo of Sarah Palin in jogging togs on its cover, with the headline, “ How do ...
  3 weeks ago

• Chris Mooney: New Atheists’ attack on religion is counter-productive

  
  Dangerous Intersection — Authority: 478
  Chris Mooney is the author of The Republican War on Science , Storm World , and Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future (co-authored by Sheril Kirshenbaum). He is also an atheist who, for years, has engaged with believers on the validity of religious claims. He strongly believes that ...
  3 weeks ago

• PZ Myers Finally Rises into Bryan Appleyard’s Radar

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 437
  And Appleyard skewers him, returning rhetorical fire with rhetorical fire: I note also the appearance of this character P.Z.Myers . I’ve never read him before but I now discover he once did me over – ‘ How stupid are the editors and managers who keep paying for his badly written lumps of ...
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• The rules of science

  
  Open Parachute — Authority: 524
  PZ Myers has a great post Ten Questions to Ask Your Biology Teacher About Intelligent Design. It briefly discusses, and disposes of, some of the most common intelligent design (ID) arguments. And does it so clearly. He is a great writer – and I just don’t know how gets time to write so well and do all the ...
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• Roundup of stuff the Old Media probably won’t tell you

  
  4Simpsons Blog - Eternity Matters — Authority: 422
  Cash for Grades? That controversial “cash for grades” fund raiser at a North Carolina middle school didn’t last too long. After the scheme to award extra points on tests for $20 appeared in the Raleigh News & Observer, Wayne County district officials today killed the Rosewood Middle School fund raiser. ...
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• Do Ideas Have Consequences Only When Theyre Associated with Radical Islam?

  
  Kingdom of Priests — Authority: 500
  Why do so many writers who insist on emphasizing the consequences of radical Muslim belief tend to ignore the social consequences of other belief systems -- for example, Darwinism?My question is prompted by reflections that are being published about the...
  3 weeks ago

• Camille Paglia on Richard Dawkins

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 437
  Today in Salon, Camille Paglia , an atheist who obviously hasn’t been paying much serious attention to the post 9/11 New Atheist movement, stumbled upon Richard Dawkins talking about religion on NPR, and having never heard his voice before, she thought he sounded a bit, well, ridiculous:   I was recently ...
  4 weeks ago

• FREE Scanning Electron Micrographs of Just About Anything

  
  Heaving Dead Cats — Authority: 415
  An interesting offer from ASPEX November 10, 2009 2:54 PM – by PZ Myers I had my doubts about this; I got an offer from ASPEX corporation to let people get free scanning electron micrographs of just about anything. They make a desktop SEM , and all you have to do is fill out a form and mail it in ...
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• Free speech only for those who agree with you

  
  My Point Exactly — Authority: 131
  It’s more a more common sentiment than you might think. Fred Oliveri , in a letter to the editor of the Morgan Hill Times, which runs my regular column My Point Exactly, objects to the paper publishing a recent column that advocated rational criticism of supernatural beliefs: If she wants to practice ...
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• PZ apud Perdue!

  
  Diaphanitas — Authority: 143
  "PZ apud Perdue!" "PZ at Perdue!" Thats right! http://blaghag.blogspot.com/2009/11/pz-myers-to-speak-at-purdue-university.html Excellent! I hope that Jen and her group have lots of fun! If only I could join them! I would if I could. If only I could get PZ here! I would if I could!
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• Michael Ruse, an Atheist, on Why He Hasn’t Signed Up with the New Atheists (or Confidence Atheists)

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 437
  Daniel Dennett. PZ Myers. Richard Dawkins. Jerry Coyne. Philosopher Michael Ruse is an atheist too. But don’t sign him up with the above confidence atheists. Why? Here’s one reason that he gave in a recent essay in the UK’s Guardian: [H]ow dare we be so condescending? I don’t have faith. I really ...
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