Professor Paul Zachary "PZ" Myers is an evolutionary biologist based at the University of Minnesota Morris. He is well known for being confrontational regarding Intelligent Design and religion.

His blog, Pharyngula, is one of the most popular science blogs on the internet, with well over 100 million hits to date. With "Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal" as its tagline, Pharyngula was ranked by "Nature" as the top blog written by a scientist in 2006.