A Profound Sense of Time

October 20, 2007 12:05 AM

A Profound Sense of Time. "PZ Myers on the process that prompts the growth of all vertebrates from embryos to unspecialized segments to multicellular animals."
posted by homunculus (12 comments total)

In more obvious science news...
posted by homunculus at 12:07 AM on October 20, 2007

Ontology reflects phylogeny, right?
posted by sourwookie at 12:44 AM on October 20, 2007

No!
posted by grouse at 1:31 AM on October 20, 2007 [2 favorites]

Ontology reflects phylogeny, right?

Take that shit to Uncommon Descent, troll.
posted by [expletive deleted] at 3:10 AM on October 20, 2007 [1 favorite]

First-rate science writing! MIT should teach it in its Science Writing Masters program. The guy never gets too far ahead of the lay reader. His metaphors are excellently chosen and masterfully deployed. He times his ending perfectly. His prose has natural rhythm and ebb and flow, just like the biological processes he talks about. No padding or show-offy obscurity. He actually wants us to understand!
posted by Faze at 5:28 AM on October 20, 2007

I see from his blog, however, that he's gotten suckered into this science vs. religion debate, big time. I guess the temptation to shoot fish in a barrell is too hard to resist.
posted by Faze at 6:13 AM on October 20, 2007

How do you teach evolution?
posted by homunculus at 9:59 AM on October 20, 2007

I see from his blog, however, that he's gotten suckered into this science vs. religion debate, big time.

You don't read Pharyngula often, do you? That's PZ Meyers' bread and butter. He's the Dawkins of the blogosphere.

And for what it's worth, his views are mostly right on, IMO.
posted by chrisamiller at 10:40 AM on October 20, 2007

And the best part is, I get to take his class next semester, and I can drop by his office at any time! He's a pretty neat guy.
posted by InnocentBystander at 11:14 AM on October 20, 2007

Ideally, ontology does reflect phylogeny. But, sourwookie, I think you were thinking of ontogeny.
posted by hattifattener at 12:46 PM on October 20, 2007 [1 favorite]

PZ Myers is awesome, and Pharyngula is my absolute favourite blog.

InnocentBystander: right now he's got some of his students blogging on Pharyngula... will you be doing that next semester?
posted by arcticwoman at 2:45 PM on October 20, 2007

Thank you hatifattener, I was.

Unortunately, my mis-typing got me called a Troll.
posted by sourwookie at 11:14 PM on October 21, 2007