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Jerry Coyne on Science

born 1949 United States

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

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)

If religion and science get along so well, why are so many scientists nonbelievers?

Faith vs. Fact (2015)

I have argued that religion is to science as superstition is to reason; indeed, that is the very reason they are incompatible.

Faith vs. Fact (2015)

Science’s results alone justify its usefulness, for it is, hands down, the single best way we’ve devised to understand the universe.

Faith vs. Fact (2015)

“Blasphemy” and “heresy” are terms of religion, not science.

Faith vs. Fact (2015)

What might be considered a real contribution of science to religious belief is the empirical demonstration that some of those beliefs are wrong.

Faith vs. Fact (2015)

In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice.

Damn, but science is just a constant feed of cool new facts and theories. Theology doesn’t come close.

Attribution

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