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PZ Myers: On Science, Blogs, and Intelligent Debates

at Pacific Science Center, Laser Dome

Reposted from:
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/05/seattle_awaits.php

PZ Myers: On Science, Blogs, and Intelligent Debates

Paul "PZ" Myers is persona non grata at the Discovery Institute. He was recently booted out of a screening of the film "Expelled"--an irony certainly not lost on him. And now the evolutionary biologist and rabble-rouser blogger is coming to Seattle for one night only. He'll be talking about the evolution of creationism and other oxymoronic topics with the same zeal and wit that have made him one of the fittest survivors on the science blog circuit.

Join the Northwest Science Writers Association and the Forum on Science Ethics and Policy for a conversation with PZ Myers. He'll answer your questions and take us inside his popular blog, Pharyngula. He's been called a "godless liberal" and his blog posts have been described as "random biological ejaculations." And that's just what he says. Others have attacked him for his stout devotion to evolution and probably for being funnier than those he offends.

NSWA and FoSEP present...
PZ Myers: On Science, Blogs, and Intelligent Debates
Pacific Science Center, Laser Dome
Monday, June 2, 2008
7 - 9 p.m.
FREE to the public

Tell your friends. Bring your questions.

Whoa. There's an expectation that I'll be funny? Uh-oh. The pressure is on.

At least those expectations are offset by the fact that I'm going to be speaking in a laser dome, which is very cool. I hope I have full access to all of the controls; hecklers beware, you could be reduced to a small heap of smoking ash.

Date: Monday, June 02, 2008

Time: 07:00 PM

Location:
Pacific Science Center, Laser Dome

Seattle, WA USA

Posted: Monday, June 02, 2008 | Permalink

Quotes of Note:

"It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand."

Mark Twain

"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365 not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers were given. Satan - 10."

Unknown

"It is an article of passionate faith among "politically correct" biologists and anthropologists that brain size has no connection with intelligence; that intelligence has nothing to do with genes; and that genes are probably nasty fascist things anyway."

Richard Dawkins

"Man is a Religious Animal. Man is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion -- several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven.... The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste."

Mark Twain

"Most people, I believe, think that you need a God to explain the existence of the world, and especially the existence of life. They are wrong, but our education system is such that many people don't know it."

Richard Dawkins