PZ gets called on the absence of science from his “science blog” and gets just a little bit upset:
I noticed that this blog is in the running for a Best Science Blog award. I’ve looked over the site. Can someone point out where the science is on it. I have looked but I can’t find any.
In PZ’s defense, there are lots of pictures of squid, and since he’s a biologist aka butterfly collector, he genuinely believes that passes for science.
The amusing thing about the relationship between atheism and science is the way many atheists can’t seem to make up their mind about their own beliefs regarding the two concepts. If atheism is merely, as Brent Rasmussen reasonably says, the absence of god-belief, then there is no relationship. The problem is that so many atheists are science fetishists that they can’t bear to let go of the notion that the two are somehow inherently entwined, which is why PZ can write nearly non-stop about atheism and then react so angrily when it’s pointed out that he isn’t actually writing about science.