Paul Zachary "PZ" Myers (born March 9, 1957) 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 is a public critic of intelligent design (ID) and of the creationist movement in general and is an activist in the American creation-evolution controversy.
Pharyngula is Myers' personal weblog, promoted as "Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal." The topics Myers covers are eclectic, delving into the non-scientific as well as scientific. While Pharyngula includes many articles discussing breaking science news and research, the blog has become particularly well-known for criticism of intelligent design and of attempts to insert it into science education. The blog has been ranked as the third-most-read blog maintained by a Minnesotan. Pharyngula won the 2005 Koufax Award for Best Expert Blog. The science journal Nature listed Pharyngula as the top-ranked blog written by a scientist.
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P.Z. Myers at the podium, 2010-10-02
Photograph : J. Jarry
The Gnu Atheism, this current wave of popular godlessness, is more than just a simple disbelief in the existence of gods: it's based on positive values and substantive ideas about how the world works. As it turns out, these values are the very same ones that are used in scientific thinking. While there are other reasons to be an atheist, and there are theists who can skillfully adopt scientific thinking to perform as exemplary scientists, only atheist scientists are consistent in both their work and their life.