PZ Myers...don't pray for him.

[Whitney]

For those who might have missed his recent blog entry (I just happened to catch it through a fb posting), PZ has very recently found out that he was in need of urgent heart care and is soon (possibly already) undergoing heart surgery.  He has asked that you not pray for him  

For what it's worth, I hope for his speedy recovery.

[notself]

I am not praying for PZ and please tell him because people who think they are being prayed for have more cardiac complications.  He does have my best wishes for a speedy recovery.

http://www.ahjonline.com/article/PIIS00 ... t1=no&vol=

[Sophus]

I don't know how reliable - or for that matter who - this commenter is, but they have said:

Short PZ update. New stent and doing well. Scheduled to go home tomorrow. And will be able to start torturing his students in due course. *Applause*

In response to which Coyne wrote this poem:

Says the PeeZee, “I’m no longer sick,

Thanks to a spiffy new medical trick:

My aorta’s not bent

For I haz a new stentâ€"

Now I’ll go back to being a dick!”

Hope he's doing well.

[The Magic Pudding]

I hope his loony religious activities inbox doesn't overflow before he gets back on the job.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I wonder how many theists are praying for his prompt demise?

[Asmodean]

I wonder how many theists are praying for his prompt demise?

I wonder how many are not.  

[Thumpalumpacus]

Touché.

[Ultima22689]

Meh, I hope he gets better but I can't stand the guy.

[Sophus]

Meh, I hope he gets better but I can't stand the guy.

Why's that?

[Ultima22689]

Meh, I hope he gets better but I can't stand the guy.

Why's that?

I haven't followed the guy much concerning religion however he regularly blasts people that I do like, such as Ray Kurzweil and other futurists with out out right insults instead of countering their arguments in an intellectual fashion. I hate when people blast new tech or theories without even considering them, it's kind of like the 3D thing, it's obvious it's really taking off but people continue to hate it like religious zealots, he is doing the same in regards to the singularity camp, ironically, sounding like many of the religious zealots he normally opposes.