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<p>I too am a regular reader of the Pharyngula blog, and I agree with this characterization of its author. I have met PZ Myers in person, on the campus of my alma mater when Richard Dawkins spoke there earlier this year, and he (and Dawkins) are quite good at hearing people out, but then responding to the substance of what people say. People who do their homework fare best in disagreeing with scholars of biological evolution.</p>