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Jerry Coyne

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Denyse O'Leary
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October 22, 2021
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Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design
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Darwinian evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne learns s thing or three about censorship – when he’s not doling it out

Denyse O'Leary
October 22, 2021
Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design
The explanation for Coyne’s sudden support for academic freedom might be fairly simple: He thought that Cancel Culture would only ever be deployed against people who think that nature shows evidence of design. He never expected it to come for people HE values. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 30, 2021
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Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design
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Jerry Coyne as opponent of Cancel Culture

Denyse O'Leary
September 30, 2021
Academic Freedom, Intelligent Design
One used to hear many people say “Cancel Culture is so ridiculous, it will go away soon.” Well, that’s not happening. Evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne, who usually writes about other matters, discusses two representative incidents. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 16, 2021
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extinction, Genetics, Intelligent Design
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Evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne says they’ll never clone a herd of mammoths

Denyse O'Leary
September 16, 2021
extinction, Genetics, Intelligent Design
Coyne: What they’d get would be a genetic chimera, an almost entirely Asian elephant but one that is hairier, chunkier, and more tolerant of cold. That is NOT a woolly mammoth, nor would it behave like a woolly mammoth, for they’re not inserting behavior genes. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 31, 2021
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Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Science
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Darwinian evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne speaks out on the war on math

Denyse O'Leary
August 31, 2021
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Science
Some of us remember when Darwinian commenters chided us for writing about the war on math and the war on science. Now that Jerry Coyne is starting to talk about it, will they start to listen? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 24, 2021
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Atheism, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, theism
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Jerry Coyne vs Ross Douthat on science-based belief in God

Denyse O'Leary
August 24, 2021
Atheism, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, theism
Coyne makes a virtue of the fact that he finds typical, widespread points of view hard to comprehend. Uncommon Descent to Jerry Coyne: Come in Coyne, are you reading us?: Buckle that seatbelt, man! This is the BIG roller coaster, Flyin’ Annie. Not the little ones you are used to. Over and out. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 17, 2021
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Academic Freedom, Culture, Darwinism
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Is a Darwinian evolutionary biologist waking up to the world in which he is living?

Denyse O'Leary
July 17, 2021
Academic Freedom, Culture, Darwinism
Jerry Coyne: "It would be the ruination of American society, turning into an Orwellian nightmare." Fact is, Darwin's people imposed this on the rest of us for a long time. It's good if they are beginning to see, however dimly, the problem. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 11, 2021
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Creationism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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Darwinian biologist Jerry Coyne speaks out on a SciAm op-ed’s claims that denial of evolution stems from white supremacy

Denyse O'Leary
July 11, 2021
Creationism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
It seems obvious, on reflection, that Hopper’s piece is a disastrously clumsy effort on the part of Scientific American to get Woke. Darwinian evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne thinks the mag is not just circling the drain but “approaching the drainhole.” To the extent that the editors couldn’t find someone who at least gets basic facts right, he has a point. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 18, 2021
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Philosophy
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Michael Egnor to Jerry Coyne: Why the universe itself can’t be the most fundamental thing

Denyse O'Leary
April 18, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Philosophy
Egnor: The cause of the universe must be something other than the universe itself and must have the power to cause things independently of the laws of nature. That is what all men call God. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 11, 2021
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Atheism, Intelligent Design, Science, theism
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Michael Egnor: Here’s why an argument for God’s existence is a scientific argument

Denyse O'Leary
April 11, 2021
Atheism, Intelligent Design, Science, theism
Egnor: [t]he logic pointing to God’s existence is overwhelmingly stronger than the evidence and logic supporting any other scientific theory in nature. Aquinas’s First Way proof of God’s existence, for example, has exactly the same structure as any other scientific theory. The empirical evidence is the presence of change in nature. Because infinite regress is logically impossible in an essentially ordered chain of changes, there must be a Prime Mover to begin the process and that is what we call God. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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March 4, 2021
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Academic Freedom, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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David Klinghoffer muses on the (almost) Cancelation of physicist Eric Hedin

Denyse O'Leary
March 4, 2021
Academic Freedom, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
Klinghoffer: Hedin's persecutor, Jerry Coyne, "was a prominent academic, enjoying maximum career safety at the University of Chicago. Let’s be honest: between the two, there was no contest. Coyne could move against Hedin without fear, and he did. On the other hand, Hedin’s career was on the line, and both knew it." Sounds like Darwinism as she is spoke. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 31, 2020
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Atheism, Intelligent Design, Naturalism
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Darwinian biologist Jerry Coyne continues to worry about astrology, this time at the New York Times

Denyse O'Leary
December 31, 2020
Atheism, Intelligent Design, Naturalism

He seems to have started noticing recently when astrology was touted at the Guardian and the Globe and Mail: In the past couple of days we’ve seen the Guardian tout astrology twice, and now the Globe and Mail. What I’d forgotten is that the New York Times has also been doing it occasionally—certainly more often than the Paper of Record should. For evidence, see Greg Mayer’s survey last year of the NYT’s treatment of astrology. As Greg said: I did a search at the Times’ website for “astrology”, and the results were intriguing, verging on appalling. The first 9 results were all supportive of astrology; and all had appeared since since July 2017. Many treated astrology as a “he said, Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
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December 17, 2020
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Academic Freedom, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
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Jerry Coyne seems to be coming to terms with the Woke endgame

Denyse O'Leary
December 17, 2020
Academic Freedom, Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
We wondered what Darwinian evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne was doing recently besides being nice to cats (a very fine habit and the sign of a true gentleman). So this now... Read More ›