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Jerry Coyne

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Denyse O'Leary
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February 18, 2023
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Intellectual freedom
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Jerry Coyne on how Scientific American is departing from science

Denyse O'Leary
February 18, 2023
Intellectual freedom
Darwinian evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne will likely never know how much is own attitudes over the years helped build, for him and his, the climate that once spelled trouble only for — for example — researchers who see design in nature. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 3, 2022
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Intelligent Design, Physics
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At Mind Matters News: Why free will is philosophically and scientifically sound

Denyse O'Leary
July 3, 2022
Intelligent Design, Physics
Takehome: Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor points out that, though free will may be unpopular with atheist thinkers like biologist Darwinian evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne, science doesn’t refute it. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
June 28, 2022
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Culture, Darwinism
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At Mind Matters News: What’s hot and what’s not in Darwinblogs

Denyse O'Leary
June 28, 2022
Culture, Darwinism
Casey Luskin: We’ve seen a decline in the amount of high quality science writing from blogs like Panda’s Thumb. Some old voices in the Darwin blogosphere have diminished and some new ones have popped up. Jerry Coyne certainly is one of the ones that has really popped up on his very popular blog. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 10, 2022
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Atheism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy
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At Mind Matters News: Michael Egnor’s challenge to two atheists who deny free will

Denyse O'Leary
February 10, 2022
Atheism, Intelligent Design, Philosophy
Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor is challenging evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne and philosopher Massimo Pigliucci to a debate. He thinks there is too much of this no-free-will nonsense in the science blogosphere. Egnor: "Free will has no physical cause? At least four categories of events in nature have no physical cause. Free will denial isn’t science, just atheism in a lab coat." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 28, 2021
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Atheism, Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, science education
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Jerry Coyne on the war on math, science, in New Zealand – and falling scores

Denyse O'Leary
December 28, 2021
Atheism, Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Naturalism, science education
Darwinian evolutionary biologist Coyne doesn’t dispute teaching Indigenous beliefs in a cultural class. But he may be at a major disadvantage because - if many years of his blogging are any guide - he wants science taught as a branch of naturalist atheism. Thus, the question arises, why shouldn’t we teach naturalist atheism too as an outcropping of Western culture? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 29, 2021
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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At The Times of London: “Charles Darwin will be next if his great defender is toppled”

Denyse O'Leary
October 29, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
Huh? What? If Huxley (or Darwin) is cancelled, “the practice of science itself no longer matters.” Well, that’s true but for Cancel Culture, that’s a feature, not a bug. It shows their immense power, generally in the robes of victimhood. Has none of these people been paying attention to the war on math and the war on science? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 28, 2021
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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It begins at last… T. H. Huxley, Darwin’s bulldog, about to be Cancelled – other early Darwinists to get the chop soon?

Denyse O'Leary
October 28, 2021
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
W. D. Hamilton, Ronald Fisher, and J. B. S. Haldane are also threatened. We never thought it would happen but it is happening… so fast. Read More ›