4 Quotes & Sayings By Pz Myers

P.Z. Myers is an assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and then did postdoctoral research at Yale University and the California Institute of Technology Read more

In 2002, he published the first peer-reviewed paper on evolution that uses a mathematical model to demonstrate why natural selection can be expected to produce a system as complex as human language. The paper was published in Nature, and it has been cited over 800 times, according to Google Scholar. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Royal Society of Edinburgh, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He also serves on the advisory boards of Eugenics Online and Evolution News & Views.

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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. P.Z. Myers
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It's not a crime to offend others; in fact, it's pretty much a natural consequence of having diverse cultures. We live in a world full of people with different backgrounds, interests, and values, and we must learn to accept that there will be clashes. As long as the differences do no harm, we should back off and accept them P.Z. Myers
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Where religion clashes with science is that religion makes smart people do stupid things. P.Z. Myers