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  1. Sastra says

    At first glance, that strap on your arm (camera? backpack?) looks like the top of a guitar. So we’re looking here at Dr. “Science Educator” by day, Heavy Metal Rocker from Hell, by night.

    The legend grows…

  2. says

    If you need someone to help design your flyers, give me a call ‘k?
    This you couldn’t even do anymore with dignity back in the 90’s! (except maybe for some free goa trance party)
    Will this talk be posted on here maybe?
    (yesyesyesyesyes?)

  3. Ray says

    Hey, I want some bright red arcs of lightning! How do I get bright red arcs of lightning???

    Cheers,
    Ray

  4. Azdak says

    I hope you take a few moments away from the topic of education to reveal how you came to possess the Pick of Destiny.

  5. says

    Science Education: Caught in the middle of the war between Science and Religion

    Wasn’t that the tag line for “Crossroads”?

  6. says

    Nice flyer, though they should have gone with the photo from that animation where you are in a labcoat and desecrating a cracker with a nail. That’s the kind of scientist people want to see…

    …though I’m afraid the mad scientist image is going to be resigned to 50’s horror films.

  7. Josh West says

    You should have been at Dragon*Con!

    The Science and the Skeptic track were great, and always looked to be full.

  8. The Chimp's Raging Id says

    PZ,

    Have your Satanic powers finally been caught on camera? Repent immediately!

  9. says

    I wanted to be at DragonCon, but it was just too close to both my return from vacation and the start of classes. I had to do some prep work in there somewhere!

  10. simea mirans says

    I dunno, I always thought Satan would be capable of wearing his shoulder-strap-pad turned down the right way.

  11. Jim says

    It looks like they should have added a line saying “You’ll pay for the whole seat but you’ll only need the edge!

  12. Holbach says

    If there are any religionist haranguers in front of you and they are close enough, give them a good spittle flecking!

  13. Kapitano says

    Excellent. I think you should be carrying a flaming sword of truth in the poster for the next one.

    Either way, I hope to see a vid posted of the event. Especially if a whackjob tries to heckle and you “deal with him”.

  14. Patrick says

    That’s birthday. I’ve been looking for something to do…I guess I should take the day off and come see this.

  15. says

    Hm. A “Science and Skeptic” track at DragonCon? That’s the first I’ve heard of it…I thought it was just for sci-fi and fantasy.

    I know that since people like Pete Abrams was there…

    Anyway, on to topic: When it comes to the war between science and religion, this is the attitude that we have to fight.

    Fortunately, there are people like Darron S out there!

    We need more people like that, especially when there are guys like that last commentator who said that:

    The evidence for design is all around us and the existence of the non-material is self-evident.

  16. Rey Fox says

    That IS a pretty awful poster. They use a picture of someone leaning on something and crop out the object on which he’s leaning? Combined with the camera strap, he looks like he’s wielding a riding crop or something. Taste the whip of shiny shiny leather, yikes.

  17. Heather says

    There can be only one.

    You didn’t happen to cut someone’s head off with a broadsword just prior to this photo, did you?

  18. Donnie B. says

    That IS a pretty awful poster. They use a picture of someone leaning on something and crop out the object on which he’s leaning?

    He’s not leaning on something, he’s zipping up his fly.

    And to me, it doesn’t look like red lightning (or white lightning, heh). It looks like a model of some sort of molecule.

  19. Epikt says

    Sastra:

    At first glance, that strap on your arm (camera? backpack?) looks like the top of a guitar.

    I thought it was a very large toothbrush.

  20. Tristan says

    Aw, too bad. I’m over in the Kenosha area and can’t travel out that far during the semester. Oh well. Any chance of you hitting the Milwaukee or Kenosha/Racine area?

  21. says

    I wonder if Australia would be able to bring you out for National Science Week next year given it’s the 150th anniversary of The Origin Of Species. Having Michael Shermer come out this year was very awesome.

  22. Jason says

    We need a picture of you, Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens playing in a badass death-metal band, similar to the image with Darth Vader, Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Princes Leia, R2 and C3PO playing in a concert. I’d wallpaper that forever.

  23. says

    It seems like a lot of people want this filmed. We plan on filming it for the CFI, but our resources are scant and the quality of the video might not be very good. We really only have one video camera. If anyone in the area wants to help us film it though, they are more than welcome.

  24. says

    BTW, if your event in Northern California craps out on you, we’ve got a relaxacon down here the same weekend. Even a mad scientist competition. Just a day’s drive.

    (Interstate 5 in California, when the cops tell you 90 is too slow for local speeds.)

  25. Janine ID says

    Posted by: Rey Fox | September 1, 2008 8:52 PM

    Taste the whip of shiny shiny leather, yikes.

    You forgot the best part. Taste the whip! Now BLEE-EED for me!

    Damn but PZ is a meatball, the impaler and Lou Reed. What is PZ’s scariest form? I’m going underground! (Excuse me as I slip in some Jam.)

  26. Rey Fox says

    “It’s at times like this when I start to think that maybe humanity wasn’t such a happy accident.”

    Which part are you doubting, the happy part or the accident part?

  27. Lynn David says

    Awww… you look too cuddly to be all satanic.

    But that light glow around you does give you a god-like quality!

    eh….

  28. Samantha Vimes says

    They really needed to photoshop in a cephalopod behind you, too, looking krakenish. “Go forth, my pretty, and crush the creobots!”

  29. Arno says

    “They really needed to photoshop in a cephalopod behind you, too, looking krakenish. “Go forth, my pretty, and crush the creobots!””

    Or Cthulhu :P

    Anyway, PZ, as you seem to be going everywhere these days… Any chance of you coming soon to either the Netherlands or the UK?

    ..pretty please?

  30. Lilly de Lure says

    Arno said:

    Anyway, PZ, as you seem to be going everywhere these days… Any chance of you coming soon to either the Netherlands or the UK?

    ..pretty please?

    Seconded, especially with regards to the UK!

  31. David Marjanović, OM says

    Turnhalle? Hää?

    Either way, I hope to see a vid posted of the event. Especially if a whackjob tries to heckle and you “deal with him”.

    “I find your possession of faith… dis-tuuur-bing.”

  32. Wayne Robinson says

    I’m sorry that they put PhD after PZ’s name. A PhD should be a given. It’s what the person does after earning a PhD that should determine his or her credibility, and unfortunately people like Dr Kent Hovind, PhD have cheapened the honour (hi Kent, how are getting on?)

  33. Wayne Robinson says

    I’m sorry that they put PhD after PZ’s name. A PhD should be a given. It’s what the person does after earning a PhD that should determine his or her credibility, and unfortunately people like Dr Kent Hovind, PhD have cheapened the honour (hi Kent, how are you getting on?)

  34. Kirs says

    Damn. Wish I still lived in Colorado. At least ya get to speak at the place that made me a hardcore atheist. Yeah Modern Cosmology class!