That PZ Myers is emotively vociferous is evident to anyone who reads, well, virtually anything that he has ever written on any subject at all.
It is likewise evident that he is intellectually mute. How so? Where are his scholarly works on the truth of atheism? He has produced none. He merely presupposes God’s non-existence without evidence, see:
ITS NAME IS DOOM — PZ Myers’ A Priori Presuppositional Presumption of Atheism
PZ Myers is Refreshingly Honest: Doom, Gloom and a Positive Affirmation of God’s Non-Existence to Boot!
PZ Myers – Contra Mitch Daniels and Pro Positive Affirmation of God’s Non-Existence
PZ Myers’ Dogmatheism Catechism
Is PZ Myers establishing a church? Behold his new “wonderful revelation”
Etc., etc., etc.
PZ Myers chooses to destroy a perfectly good cracker (a supposedly transubstantiated Eucharist host), that a homeless person could have eaten, but absconds from scholarly intellectual pursuits and debate—see PZ Myers – Transubstantiating from Scientist to New Atheist Activist
Where then are his proofs of atheism and disproof of theism?
None exist but merely emotive besmirchments of straw-men and straw-gods.
His lack of scholarship and intellectual rigor in these areas, as well as the truth of my statements above, may be demonstrated in the following examples (which are a mere few of many).
PZ Myers dismisses Vox Day’s book The Irrational Atheist: Dissecting the Unholy Trinity of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens while admitting to only having read a few chapters.
Yet, he refuses to debate Vox Day on the existence of God, or evolution for that matter (Myers being a professor of biology) based on dismissing a book he barely read (yes, it is merely a lame excuse which he peppered with a barrage of emotive ad hominems)—see Speaking of Assiduous Absconders…Yet Again, Vox Day Challenges PZ Myers to Debate.
PZ Myers also dismissed Stephen Meyer’s book Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design referring to it as a “stinker,” “drivel” and “Discovery Institute Bulldung” whilst stating that, “Stephen Meyer lies.” Yet, he stated all of this, and more, whilst stating, “I suppose I’ll have to read that 600 page pile of slop sometime…”
But why would he comment thusly on a book he has not read and its author? Because he fancies himself a know it all, in so many words, “I know what is in this book—’ooooh, it’s so complex, it must have been . . . designed!’”—see “Signature in the Cell,” “Signature of Controversy” and the Signature of Pseudo-Scientific Sloth, part 2.
This fact alone shows that he needs to read it, as Intelligent Design proponents are constantly begging their opponents to stop mischaracterizing Intelligent Design theory as holding to something to the likes of it’s so complex, it must have been . . . designed!
PZ Myers also refused to debate anyone from Creation Ministries International (CMI) even while he was in Australia for the preaching-to-the-choir-back-patting Global Atheist Convention – The Rise of Atheism – the “biggest ever atheist event in Australia’s history”. Indeed, not one of the world’s most brilliant atheists accepted the invitation to debate—see Yet Again, the Most Intelligent, Well Informed and Vociferous Atheist in the World Cower from Debate.
Clearly, PZ Myers is popular because he scratches where many atheists itch: atheism is an emotional rejection of God very, very thinly veneered in a facade of scientific and intellectual respectability. Thus, PZ Myers plays upon and stokes the fires of emotion yet, he has not, is not and who knows if he ever will engage the intellect.