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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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It takes a profound hypocrisy to try to reconcile for others things that you can’t reconcile for yourself.
Some believers are fundamentalists about everything, but every believer is a fundamentalist about something.
Guilt is the great weapon of the Authoritarian Left, and we must resist it when it comes to endorsing free expression.
This will not abate: wokeness is a one-way ratchet to pure authoritarianism.
There are no activists so authoritarian and unforgiving as gender activists.
Yes, the claim that sex in humans is not a binary is pretty much a lie, and is made on ideological rather than scientific grounds.
Theology is the post hoc rationalization of what you want to believe.
Religion and xenophobia go together like hot dogs and mustard.
One child dead because of superstition is one too many.
Keeping budgets secret is what universities do.
The whole brouhaha serves to demonstrate that “cancel culture”—the attempt to ruin someone’s career if they transgress “progressive” ideological stands—is alive and well.
Every bit of truth clawed from nature over the last four centuries has involved completely ignoring God, for even religious scientists park their faith at the laboratory door.
Faith vs. Fact (2015)
But all that changed when Darwin explained those designlike features by natural selection. The best evidence for God simply vanished.
Faith vs. Fact (2015)
The first argument, that religion is a social necessity and will always be with us, is dubious. It can be demolished with only two words: northern Europe.
Faith vs. Fact (2015)
Ironically, as the credibility of creationists grows smaller, their voices get louder.
Faith vs. Fact (2015)
Evolution tells us where we came from, not where we can go.
Why Evolution is True (2009)
That doesn’t mean that the religious completely abjure evidence. If it supports their preconceptions, they’ll accept it.
Faith vs. Fact (2015)
In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice.
Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn’t happen? That’s not academic freedom, but dereliction of duty.
In the end, why isn’t it better to find out how the world really works instead of making up stories about it, or accepting stories concocted centuries ago?
Faith vs. Fact (2015)
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