PZ Myers, Amerikaanse bioloog, en professor aan de Universiteit van Minnesota Morris (UMM). Hij is de auteur van de science blog genaamd "Pharyngula". PZ is een bekend atheïst, criticus van intelligent design (ID) en het creationisme in het algemeen, en is een activist in de Amerikaanse creatie-evolutie controversie.

If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had. No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth. The convictions that you so passionately believe would have been a completely different, and largely contradictory, set of convictions, if only you had happened to be born in a different place. Epidemiology, not evidence.

~ Richard Dawkins