Word!

As regular readers of Sounds & Fury are aware, we occasionally post here on science matters which matters are off-message for this blog, but for which posts we make no apology whatsoever.

We've recently discovered Pharyngula, the blog of P.Z. Myers — biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris — and he's a joy to read when not engaging in rabid atheist cheerleading or equally rabid anti-theist polemics notwithstanding that biology is not one of our primary science interests (that would be cosmology and psychology as witness here, and here).

Following is an excerpt from a Pharyngula post that's quintessential Myers in its no-nonsense, straightforward prose absent any trace of typical academic pussyfooting. It's an answer to a prolix eMail from an ignorant anti-Darwinist which eMail Dr. Myers quotes in full, and then responds:

There's a simple reason why biologists get pissed off with creationists, and it has nothing to do with a "first person ontology" — it's that we have the hard work, the data, the experiments, the whole dang enchilada of the "objective facts of the matter," and pretentious pissants like Mr Wood [the writer of the prolix eMail] think nothing of overlooking their own self-admitted ignorance of evolution to pronounce a verdict based entirely on their half-assed psychoanalysis of the universe. We can see quite clearly (especially in this instance) what it is that drives a person to oppose Darwin (as if ol' Chuck had anything to do with the issue at this point): it is the arrogance of incompetence, the self-satisfied smugness of preening assholes, the sanctimony of pious lackwits, the insufferable stupidity of pompous windbags who think they can rationalize their superstitions by seeking justification in a kind of gasified cold reading.

Your bubble-headed bullshit doesn't bamboozle me, Mr Wood — I think the only person your verbose drivel might persuade is another superficial drone who mistakes diarrhea for depth.

Word!

RTWT here.