Biology Forum › Evolution › I’m gonna see PZ Meyers!

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    • April 21, 2009 at 5:22 am #11243
      AstusAleator
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      Yeah that’s right. PZ Meyers is comin to town and I get to see him. Maybe even have a beer with him afterwards!

      http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009 … r_bust.php

    • April 21, 2009 at 2:00 pm #90251
      mith
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      !

    • April 26, 2009 at 7:03 am #90374
      AstusAleator
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      Yeah! So PZ was pretty cool. Soft spoken – surprisingly. The guy running the show had to ask him to speak louder, into the microphone. Anyway – he spent most of the time talking about the fallacies of ID logic and going into details of specific examples of cases that discredited ID. He addressed irreducible complexity and the argument that DNA could not become more "complex"; among others.
      I had the opportunity to have a beer with him afterward, but sadly I had to work early the next day and had to drive a pretty long ways home that night. *sigh* Oh well. Maybe next time.

    • April 26, 2009 at 5:57 pm #90390
      mith
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      nice! We had al gore come by…I didn’t seem him, but supposedly he’s let himself go quite a bit(chubby).

    • April 27, 2009 at 8:08 am #90407
      AstusAleator
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      I believe it. He’s definitely put weight on since his time in office. I’d be pretty stoked to meet him. Was he doing the whole Inconvenient Truth bit, or was it some other presentation?

    • April 27, 2009 at 5:48 pm #90426
      mith
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      Err, he was here to throw a shovel of dirt on the new global economic policy center or something like that.

    • April 27, 2009 at 11:38 pm #90432
      alextemplet
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      Oh yes, a small bit of manual labor designed to be as easy as possible, and everyone cheers and applauds. Don’t you find it funny how we get so worked up over ceremony and formality that really serves almost no purpose at all in the real world?

    • April 28, 2009 at 2:53 am #90437
      AstusAleator
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      Funny, coming from a Catholic. 😉

    • April 28, 2009 at 3:22 am #90438
      alextemplet
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      Ah but you forget that our pomp and ceremony helps improve our chances of going to the Land of Magical Fairies and Other Nice Things!

    • May 3, 2009 at 3:37 am #90543
      MrMistery
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      about al gore. When he was over here a few months ago he told a nice story. apparently a woman told him in a diner "You know if you dye your hair black and loose some weight, you’ll look just like Al Gore!" Funny 🙂
      Oh yeah, we just had the Dalai Lama over last week. I had a genetics presentation I had to attend then. That kinda made me mad.

    • May 3, 2009 at 6:46 am #90549
      AstusAleator
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      I hope you gave your professor hell for making you miss the Dalai Lama

    • May 3, 2009 at 2:01 pm #90555
      MrMistery
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      well the presentation was scheduled long before the Dalai Lama’s visit, so I couldn’t really object much to it.
      Besides, he’ll probably be over again sometime in the next 3 years, everyone loves to come visit us..

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