PZ Myers, on his Pharyngula blog, expressed shock that a Minister of State with special responsibility for Science would lend support to such a book.
The concept of Mecca Time was described as "a beautiful example of cargo cult science" by PZ Myers in reaction to the news of the building of the Mecca clock.
PZ Myers (born 1957), an evolutionary developmental biologist, professor and blogger
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Biologist PZ Myers responded to the institute's "bogus complaint that Olson was lying in the movie" about Ernst Haeckel's drawings of embryos is false.
Mathis has been criticized for allegedly misleading evolutionary biologists PZ Myers and Richard Dawkins to get them to appear in the film.