Posts Tagged by Jerry Coyne
Jerry Coyne is unhappy again. This time it is Templeton
| October 1, 2018 | Posted by News under Atheism, Culture, Intelligent Design, Religion |
The most recent thing we had heard that Darwinian biologist Darwinian evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne was unhappy about was David Qualen’s book on Carl Woese. The Tangled Tree:A Radical New History of Life has far too much about horizontal gene transfer for a Darwinist’s liking. Before that, we heard that skeptical mathematician David Berlinski had […]
Jerry Coyne continues to be unhappy over David Quammen’s book on Carl Woese
| September 25, 2018 | Posted by News under Books of interest, Cell biology, Culture, Darwinism, Evolution, horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design |
Readers will remember science writer David Quammen’s new book, The Tangled Tree:A Radical New History of Life, a biography of Carl Woese, who first identified the Archaea (and doubted Darwinism). They will also doubtless remember Darwinian evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne, who does not life Tangled Tree, and… Well, he still doesn’t like it and has […]
Jerry Coyne minimizes the significance of horizontal gene transfer
| August 27, 2018 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Evolution, horizontal gene transfer, Intelligent Design |
As we might expect. Darwinian evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne offers his thoughts on science writer David Quammen’s new book about Carl Woese, The Tangled Tree:A Radical New History of Life: Quammen is right that the horizontal transfer of genetic information does complicate our effort to understand the evolutionary past, but he goes too far in claiming […]
Which side will atheists choose in the war on science?
| August 13, 2018 | Posted by News under Atheism, Culture, Mathematics, Science |
From Denyse O’Leary at MercatorNet: In June, I wrote a piece here at MercatorNet, “A shambolic atheist community faces some tough choices,” reflecting on the discontent of some members of that community. It attracted a good many comments and at least one riposte shortly afterward. The riposte garnered 114 comments too. Clearly, the piece struck […]
