Tag: Jerry Coyne
How Ignorance Insulates the New Atheists
Intelligent design isn’t an argument for religion but it, or something like it, would have to be true if any traditional faith is to be taken as true. Yet the New Atheists do not seriously contest the evidence that ID offers.
The Two Types of Atheists
I find much the same distinction is to be made, incidentally, regarding religious believers who fancy themselves critics of other faiths.
Haught v. Coyne: The Debate of the Century (Not)
“If you’re smart you know that there’s no such thing as angels, but there is such a thing as evolution.” And more of this nature.
Can Darwinists Condemn Hitler and Remain Consistent with Their Darwinism?
Applying Darwinian insights to morality is not distorting the theory at all (as it would be for someone to draw moral implications from relativity theory). Rather, it is explicitly part and parcel of Darwin’s own theory of human evolution.
American Eugenics on the Eve of Nazi Expansion: The Darwin Connection
Germany was not the only nation captivated by a plan to give Darwinian evolution a proactive “helping hand.”