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'''Paul Zachary Myers''', better known as '''PZ Myers''', is a [[liberal]], [[atheism|atheist]] and [[evolution]]ist activist in the [[creation-evolution controversy]], contributing to [[The Panda's Thumb (blog)|The Panda's Thumb]] and [[Pharyngula (blog)|Pharyngula]] blogs. Myers is also an associate professor of [[biology]] at the [[University of Minnesota]] Morris (UMM)<ref name="citypages">[http://citypages.com/databank/26/1303/article13908.asp?page=1 ''The Mad Scientist''] City Pages, Volume 26 - Issue 1303, November 23, 2005 Cover story</ref>
'''Paul Zachary Myers''', better known as '''PZ Myers''', is a [[liberal]], [[atheism|atheist]] and [[evolution]]ist activist in the [[creation-evolution controversy]], contributing to [[The Panda's Thumb (blog)|The Panda's Thumb]] and [[Pharyngula (blog)|Pharyngula]] blogs. Myers is also an associate professor of [[biology]] at the [[University of Minnesota]] Morris (UMM)<ref name="citypages">[http://citypages.com/databank/26/1303/article13908.asp?page=1 ''The Mad Scientist''] City Pages, Volume 26 - Issue 1303, November 23, 2005 Cover story</ref>
PZ Myers commented, while listening to [[Michael Behe]] lecture on [[Intelligent design]], that "In science, we scream a lot."<ref name="citypages"/> Myers' emotionalism may have helped earn him the label of having an "[[eccentric]] voice" by the newspaper'' [[USA Today]]''.<ref>http://content.usatoday.com/communities/Religion/post/2011/06/atheist-national-geographic-pz-myers/1</ref> In a 2014 lecture, Myers said he is known for being a "weird," "loud," "radicalized" and "firebrand" type of "[[New Atheism|New Atheist]]."<ref>[http://www.evolutionnews.org/2014/06/which_is_the_re086531.html Which Is the Real PZ Myers?],'' Evolution News and Views'', Casey Luskin June 9, 2014 12:07 PM</ref> Subsequent to the [[New Atheism#Decline of New Atheism|decline of the New Atheism movement]], Myers wrote, "History will not remember me...".<ref>[http://examiningatheism.blogspot.com/2017/01/apparently-pz-myers-recognizes-that-new.html Apparently, the atheist PZ Myers recognizes that the New Atheism movement failed and that the 21st century is going to be a century of desecularization], ''Examining Atheism''</ref> In 2017, Myers renounced the New Atheism movement.<ref>[https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/07/31/the-new-atheism-is-dead-long-live-atheism/ The New Atheism is dead. Long live atheism.]</ref>
PZ Myers commented, while listening to [[Michael Behe]] lecture on [[Intelligent design]], that "In science, we scream a lot."<ref name="citypages"/> Myers' emotionalism may have helped earn him the label of having an "[[eccentric]] voice" by the newspaper'' [[USA Today]]''.<ref>http://content.usatoday.com/communities/Religion/post/2011/06/atheist-national-geographic-pz-myers/1</ref> In a 2014 lecture, Myers said he is known for being a "weird," "loud," "radicalized" and "firebrand" type of "[[New Atheism|New Atheist]]."<ref>[http://www.evolutionnews.org/2014/06/which_is_the_re086531.html Which Is the Real PZ Myers?],'' Evolution News and Views'', Casey Luskin June 9, 2014 12:07 PM</ref> Subsequent to the [[New Atheism#Decline of New Atheism|decline of the New Atheism movement]], Myers wrote, "History will not remember me...".<ref>[http://examiningatheism.blogspot.com/2017/01/apparently-pz-myers-recognizes-that-new.html Apparently, the atheist PZ Myers recognizes that the New Atheism movement failed and that the 21st century is going to be a century of desecularization], ''Examining Atheism''</ref> In July of 2017, Myers renounced the New Atheism movement.<ref>[https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/07/31/the-new-atheism-is-dead-long-live-atheism/ The New Atheism is dead. Long live atheism.]</ref>
In August of 2017 PZ Myers renounced the [[atheism movement]] and wrote:
{{Cquote|Atheism has squandered its momentum on a defensive old guard and apologists for neglect of events happening in our world. I’m going to have to suggest that we all abandon it. Let’s find an organization that openly states that they want to dismantle the structures of [[white supremacy]] and [[sexism|sexist]] oppression.<ref>[https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/08/26/get-out-a-message-for-the-atheist-movement/ Get Out! A message for the atheist movement] by PZ Myers</ref>}}
Atheist [[Michael Nugent]] said of Myers:
Atheist [[Michael Nugent]] said of Myers:
It is incredible to think that reasonable people once took him seriously.<ref>[http://www.michaelnugent.com/2016/01/24/delusional-smears-of-pz-myers/ The increasingly delusional smears of PZ Myers] by Michael Nugent</ref>}}
It is incredible to think that reasonable people once took him seriously.<ref>[http://www.michaelnugent.com/2016/01/24/delusional-smears-of-pz-myers/ The increasingly delusional smears of PZ Myers] by Michael Nugent</ref>}}
Myers now consider himself a [[humanism|humanist]] (Myers is a [[secular humanism|secular humanist]]. Secular humanism is an atheistic form of humanism.)
== Rebuke of PZ Myers by the atheist Michael Nugent relative to the area of social justice ==
== Rebuke of PZ Myers by the atheist Michael Nugent relative to the area of social justice ==