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P.Z. Myers

Born

March 09, 1957

Website

http://www.morris.umn.edu/directories/personnel...

Twitter

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Genre

Science, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality

Influences

Richard Dawkins, Stephen Jay Gould ...more

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Paul Zachary Myers is an American biology professor at the University of Minnesota Morris (UMM) and the author of the science blog Pharyngula. He is currently an associate professor of biology at UMM, works with zebrafish in the field of evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo), and also cultivates an interest in cephalopods. He has published numerous research papers in Nature and other notable scientific journals.

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P.Z. Myers's Blog

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The video corporate media doesn’t want you to see

This clip was yanked from the Late Show with Stephen Colbert because Trumpian sycophants did not care at all for James Talarico’s lefty message, criticism of the Christian Right, and opposition to the Republican scumbags of Texas. So I’m doing my small part to disseminate it further.

My opinion: he’s fine, but I’m sick of all the pandering to non-right-wing Christians. Maybe it’s too far for Texas,

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P.Z. Myers’s books

Average rating: 3.53 · 989 ratings · 151 reviews · 5 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Happy Atheist 3.53 avg rating — 933 ratings — published 2013 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Atheist Voices of Minnesota: An Anthology of Personal Stories by P.Z. Myers (Editor), Greg Laden, Stephanie Zvan 3.67 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Darwin or Design by Jason Rennie (Editor), P.Z. Myers, Mike Gene (Goodreads Author) 3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Darwin and Politics (Cato Unbound Book 72010) by P.Z. Myers, Larry Arnhart, Herbert Gintis (Goodreads Author) 1.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Comes a horseman.(The Internet)(Speech): An article from: The Humanist 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by P.Z. Myers (?)

“If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs - rethinking the world isn't an option.”
― PZ Myers

tags: belief, observation, reason, religion, science

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“Where religion clashes with science is that religion makes smart people do stupid things.”
― P.Z. Myers, The Happy Atheist

tags: atheism, religion

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“What religion has always done is pander to biases, achieving success not by challenging people with something new but by reinforcing what they already believe, no matter how wrong it is. By contrast, science shines by breaking the shackles of our preconceptions and letting us work with what really is. The”
― P.Z. Myers, The Happy Atheist

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