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What I read in May - The Happy Atheist
May. 12th, 2014 11:44 amPZ Myers is a cantankerous biologist who has become famous for defending atheism, debating various religious figures and regularly doling out criticism on his blog Pharyngula. Last I was reading the publishers of a conservative (and free) rag at his university were accusing him of stealing their papers, because some twit thought he smelled something sciency. Stealing student papers isn't PZ's style, he uses his erudition to criticize the religious to (hopefully) make them think. Seems like it's conservatives, not wacky liberal biology professors who engage in this type of censorship.
The Happy Atheist is a series of short chapters in which PZ discusses some aspect of religion in regards to atheism. Parts are scathingly hilarious, others are merely chuckle worthy. He takes his atheist viewpoint and skewers many sacred cows. I recommend this book for anyone who is an atheist or anyone who is curious on how atheists view all the religious craziness surrounding them. PZ does not pull any punches, so if you're easily offended I might recommend skipping this one. Like him, I don't find coarse language as offensive as the stupidity and justifications that the religious use for their abominable behavior.
The religious are not the only group in PZ's cross-hairs. He also takes on wishy washy apologists and other scientists who make asses of themselves. Did you know one scientist thinks God exists in the quantum realm? Poor Yahweh, he's gone from making the universe to existing in Planck level spaces.
The Happy Atheist is a series of short chapters in which PZ discusses some aspect of religion in regards to atheism. Parts are scathingly hilarious, others are merely chuckle worthy. He takes his atheist viewpoint and skewers many sacred cows. I recommend this book for anyone who is an atheist or anyone who is curious on how atheists view all the religious craziness surrounding them. PZ does not pull any punches, so if you're easily offended I might recommend skipping this one. Like him, I don't find coarse language as offensive as the stupidity and justifications that the religious use for their abominable behavior.
The religious are not the only group in PZ's cross-hairs. He also takes on wishy washy apologists and other scientists who make asses of themselves. Did you know one scientist thinks God exists in the quantum realm? Poor Yahweh, he's gone from making the universe to existing in Planck level spaces.
