[I wanted to add this as an update to my original post on Professor Pianka, but WordPress is being finicky and would delete and repost in a different order, messing up my permalinks.]

This AM, Drudge is linking to another article on the “doomsday talk” that Eric R. Pianka originally gave at the Texas Academy of Science.

Though Pianka turned down requests for a sit-down interview, he maintains he is not advocating human death.

Does he believe nature will bring about this promised devastation? Or is humanity’s own dissemination of a deadly virus the only answer? And more importantly, is this the motive behind his talks?

Responding to these very questions, Pianka said, “Good terrorists would be taking [Ebola Roaston and Ebola Zaire] so that they had microbes they could let loose on the Earth that would kill 90 percent of people.”

As of press time, Pitts — who sent his appeal via email Saturday — had received no response from the university, but he says, “It’s too early for any responses to have been made.” Meanwhile, Pianka urges humanity to heed his call to be prepared, saying “we’re going to be hunters and gatherers again real soon.”

“This is gonna happen in your lifetime,” he told his St. Edward’s audience. “Do you wanna go there? We’ve already gone there. We waited too long.”

Right! “Good terrorists would be taking [Ebola Roaston and Ebola Zaire] . . .”, says the good Prof. Somehow he’s not at all concerned that statistically he has a 9 to 1 shot at being one of the dead. Let’s all revere the suicidal maniac why don’t we?

There’s more info in the article, plus some background on Brenna McConnell, a biology senior at Texas Lutheran University, who writes the Serenity blog and was at the lecture in Texas. I posted my reactions to Brenna here, and her commentors take her apart quite nicely at her post.

Same song second verse, could get better but . . . (db)

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