Frases de Jerry Coyne

Jerry Allen Coyne é um professor estadunidense de biologia, conhecido por seu trabalho no campo da especiação, bem como por seus comentários criticando a hipótese pseudocientífica do design inteligente. Um autor e cientista prolífico, Coyne publicou dezenas de artigos elucidando a teoria da evolução. Ele é atualmente professor emérito da Universidade de Chicago no Departamento de Ecologia e Evolução. Suas pesquisas se concentram nos campos da especiação, genética ecológica e síntese evolutiva moderna - especialmente no que tange à mosca-da-fruta, Drosophila. Ele é autor do livro texto Speciation e do best-seller de não ficção Why Evolution Is True. Coyne mantém um website também chamado Why Evolution Is True. Eles se identifica como um determinista do tipo incompatibilista.

Coyne é um crítico do criacionismo, da evolução teísta e do desing inteligente,que ele chama de "a última encarnação pseudocientífica do criacionismo religioso habilmente trabalhada por um novo grupo de entusiastas para contornar as restrições legais recentes", em referência à separação entre a Igreja e Estado, consagrada na Constituição dos Estados Unidos, que barra o ensino de hipóteses criacionistas como ciência nas escolas do país.Em uma crítica à teoria criacionista do design inteligente em 1996, Coyne escreveu seu primeiro grande artigo do New Republic, uma resenha sobre o livro Of Pandas and People, que iniciou uma longa história de escritos sobre a evolução e criacionismo. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. Dezembro 1949
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Jerry Coyne: Frases em inglês

“The editorial, very poorly written for a college full of smart students, shows how far this “hate speech” cancer has spread. Let me provide for you Coyne’s Glossary for the words at issue:
:“free speech”: Speech that you like because it comports with your ideology

:“hate speech”: Speech you don’t like because it challenges your ideology

:“Nazi”: Anyone uttering “hate speech” (see above)

:“White supremacist”: See “Nazi”

:“emotional labor”: Having to argue your case rationally—something to be avoided at all costs when you can simply call people names”

see “Nazi”
" Latest college shenanigans by the Regressive Left: censorship at Pomona and UCLA; Wellesley student paper publishes “we need free speech but...” editorial https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/04/21/latest-news-about-college-shenanigans-by-the-regressive-left-censorship-at-pomona-and-ucla-wellesley-student-paper-writes-we-need-free-speech-but-article/" April 21, 2017

“Some believers are fundamentalists about everything, but every believer is a fundamentalist about something.”

" An aphorism for atheism http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/an-aphorism-for-atheism/" September 3, 2013

“In the end, why isn’t it better to find out how the world really works instead of making up stories about it, or accepting stories concocted centuries ago?”

Jerry Coyne livro Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible

Fonte: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 260

“Come on, readers, give me one example of a question that religion has answered to everyone’s satisfaction—one example of a “truth” found in religion’s quest for truth.”

" Do both science and faith produce truth? http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/08/11/do-both-science-and-faith-produce-truth/" August 11, 2012

“Any “knowledge” incapable of being revised with advances in data and human thinking does not deserve the name of knowledge.”

Jerry Coyne livro Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible

Fonte: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 28

“Even more than religious belief, acceptance or denial of evolution is a test of character. For if you deny evolution is true, you are either pandering to the public even though you know better (showing that you’re ambitious but lack character), are truly ignorant of the facts (which means you can’t be trusted to be informed about crucial issues), or are a flat-out creationist”

showing that you’re batshit crazy
" Lying and/or ignorant Republican candidates still refuse to accept evolution https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2015/05/07/lying-andor-ignorant-republican-candidates-still-refuse-to-accept-evolution/" May 7, 2015

“The methodological conflicts between science and religion cannot be brokered, for faith has no reliable way to find truth.”

Jerry Coyne livro Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible

Fonte: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 89

“Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn’t happen? That’s not academic freedom, but dereliction of duty.”

" More creationism sneaks into public schools http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/more-creationism-sneaks-into-public-schools/" April 29, 2013

“Indeed, secular morality, which is not twisted by adherence to the supposed commands of a god, is superior to most “religious” morality.”

Jerry Coyne livro Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible

Fonte: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 261

“That doesn’t mean that the religious completely abjure evidence. If it supports their preconceptions, they’ll accept it.”

Jerry Coyne livro Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible

Fonte: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 152

“Theology is the post hoc rationalization of what you want to believe.”

" Quote of the week: William James on theology http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/06/04/quote-of-the-week-william-james-on-theology/" June 4, 2012

“You can find some religions without creationism, but you can’t find creationism without religion.”

Jerry Coyne livro Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible

Fonte: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 61

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

" A huge water geyser on Saturn’s moon helps make the rings, and a bonus eclipse from Mars http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/a-huge-water-geyser-on-saturns-moon-helps-make-the-rings-and-a-bonus-eclipse-from-mars/" September 17, 2012

“What distinguishes knowledge is not certainty but evidence.”

Jerry Coyne livro Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible

Fonte: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 30 (quoting Walter Kaufmann)

“When one has a religious experience, what is “true” is only that one has had that experience, not that its contents convey anything about reality.”

Jerry Coyne livro Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible

Fonte: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 195

“The fact that both Jews and Christians ignore some of God’s or Jesus’s commands, but scrupulously obey others, is absolute proof that people pick and choose their morality not on the basis of its divine source, but because it comports with some innate morality that they derived from other sources.”

" Biblical morality part 2: Killing non-virgin brides and rebellious kids http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/06/26/biblical-morality-part-2-killing-non-virgin-brides-and-rebellious-kids/" June 26, 2012

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