Counting Coup - PZ Myers - Secular Student Alliance Conference 2009

PZ Myers's talk at the Secular Student Alliance Conference at Ohio State in 2009.

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[quammski]

Great talk PZ.

[WilkyMay609]

PZ is my hero.

[crocswsocks]

On the poster for Expelled, they've made Stein look so young he looks like he's Dick Cheney.

[daemonowner]

6:14 We don't need to make them seem ridiculous, they've saved us the effort.

[valhar2000]

Excuse me! They BACK ASSWARDS!

[valhar2000]

And that speaks volumes.

[Fromanttodugong]

Only if you consider the speaker idea of sport was to take altar-boys virginity.

[ASTCify]

PZ is outspoken awesomeness.

[ipeter22]

... our hearts by the Creator; yet there are many obstacles which prevent reason from the effective and fruitful use of this inborn faculty. For the truths that concern the relations between God and man wholly transcend the visible order of things, and, if they are ...

[ipeter22]

... translated into human action and influence it, they call for self-surrender and abnegation. the human mind, in its turn, is hampered in the attaining of such truths, not only by the impact of the senses and the imagination, but also by disordered appetites which are the consequences of original sin. So it happens that men in such matters easily persuade themselves that what they would not like to be true is false or at least doubtful." - Pius XII

Now that makes sense.

[ipeter22]

Use humor? Humiliate them? Make them look silly? Doesn't sound like a very "rational" approach to me. So Cain's wife was his sister. Myers provided no argument against that other than ridicule. Not very convincing.