Speakers

Paul Zachary "PZ" Myers is an American biology professor at the University of Minnesota Morris (UMM), answering evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo) questions using zebrafish. He is the author of the award-winning Pharyngula science blog, hosted on Freethought Blogs network, and a columnist for Free Inquiry, published by the Center for Inquiry. A self-avowed "godless liberal" and outspoken atheist, he is a public critic of the intelligent design (ID) / creationist movement and an activist in the American creation-evolution controversy.

He is widely regarded as a confrontationalist and is notorious for having destroyed a Communion wafer, Bible, Quran, and copy of The God Delusion on video as political and philosophical statements.

Longer Bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pz_myers

Website: http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula