Jerry Coyne Quotes

born 1949 United States

Jerry Allen Coyne (born December 30, 1949) is an American biologist, known for his work on speciation and his commentary on intelligent design. A prolific scientist and author, he has published dozens of papers elucidating the theory of evolution.

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Everyone else besides the faithful already knows that religion has nothing useful to say to science.

It is curious that those who claim such firm knowledge about God’s nature and works become silent when asked about God’s methods.

Faith vs. Fact (2015)

Faith is not a virtue, but a character flaw.

It is time to stop seeing faith as a virtue, and to stop using the term “person of faith” as a compliment.

Faith vs. Fact (2015)

Any “knowledge” incapable of being revised with advances in data and human thinking does not deserve the name of knowledge.

Faith vs. Fact (2015)

The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.

Why Evolution is True (2009)

The orderliness of nature—the so-called set of natural laws—is not an assumption but an observation.

Faith vs. Fact (2015)

In the end, a theory that can’t be shown to be wrong can never be shown to be right.

Faith vs. Fact (2015)

In other words, truth is simply what is: what exists in reality and can be verified by rational and independent observers.

Faith vs. Fact (2015)

The methodological conflicts between science and religion cannot be brokered, for faith has no reliable way to find truth.

Faith vs. Fact (2015)

Indeed, secular morality, which is not twisted by adherence to the supposed commands of a god, is superior to most “religious” morality.

Faith vs. Fact (2015)

“What distinguishes knowledge is not certainty but evidence.”

Faith vs. Fact (2015)

The realization that God is not the source of morality is, I think, one of the great contributions of philosophy to clarifying human thought.

Living with uncertainty is hard for many people, and is one of the reasons why people prefer religious truths that are presented as absolute.

Faith vs. Fact (2015)

Because of the hegemony of fundamentalist religion in the United States, this country has been among the most resistant to the fact of human evolution.

Why Evolution is True (2009)

The man has no conception of what empirical evidence really is, so strong is his will to believe.

If you can’t think of an observation that could disprove a theory, that theory simply isn’t scientific.

Why Evolution is True (2009)

You can find some religions without creationism, but you can’t find creationism without religion.

Faith vs. Fact (2015)

Science has a huge advantage over “other ways of knowing”: built-in methods of self-correction.

Faith vs. Fact (2015)

Religion has no warrant and no method for decreeing what is and what is not beyond science.

Faith vs. Fact (2015)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jerry Coyne (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.