Comments on: What am I going to ask PZ Myers on Sunday?

By: Glendon Mellow

Glendon Mellow — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 09:56:25 +0000

Sven, you were totally right: zebra fish not angel fish. Whoops.

By: monson

monson — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:31:46 +0000

Is it possible to consider religous people as serious colleagues? If a prof or researcher has faith in god can he be trusted to be honest and diligent as a scientist?

By: Troff

Troff — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 07:07:37 +0000

If the human brain is a physical system with no meta- or non-physical components, why is Ray Kurzweil so deserving of the ridicule presented on Pharyngula?

(That’s not intended as a snarky side-snipe. The last Kurzweil-related post on Pharyngula had a lot of “it’s very complex”, “it’s not as simple as Kurzweil made out”, “Kurzweil is some kind of scammer” comments; but I haven’t yet found a definitive summary answer to the question. Being atheist, I was an avid Pharynguloid for years… but have finally found the last Kurzweil post to be way too over-the-top and excessively rude for my tastes.) Many thanks.

By: John S. Wilkins

John S. Wilkins — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 02:42:45 +0000

Ask him how he spells his name. Also, ask him what the difference in his opinion is between agnostics and atheists…

By: BruceH

BruceH — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 18:55:40 +0000

I didn’t read every comment here, so if this has been suggested already, please forgive me.

I suggest you ask him about his stance on accommodationism in the New Atheist movement. (If you want to call it that.) Perhaps you could include a couple quotes from Dawkins, Hitchens, Mooney, et. al. as a way to frame your question.

By: Kapitano

Kapitano — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:27:06 +0000

Ask, “What is the point in arguing with idiots? (Including IDiots).”

Seriously, they don’t listen and they couldn’t understand even if they wanted to, so why do it?

By: Jacob

Jacob — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:57:53 +0000

Please ask him what he would change about the current public education system.

By: Ichthyic

Ichthyic — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:26:34 +0000

…here’s another from a more agricultural perspective, which details more about different methods of polyploidy and what the implications are for breeding. It doesn’t require journal access:

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/fletcher/staff/tranney/ranney_pages_06.pdf

By: Ichthyic

Ichthyic — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:22:34 +0000

…or did you mean if a chromosomal duplication arises, like in polyploid plants?

if so, papers like this might help you:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10688139
http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.genet.34.1.401

By: Ichthyic

Ichthyic — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:20:33 +0000

…or did you mean if a chromosomal duplication arises, like in polyploid plants?

if so, papers like this might help you:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15752992
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10688139
http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.genet.34.1.401