Frases de Jerry Coyne (154 citações, página 4)

“In other words, truth is simply what is: what exists in reality and can be verified by rational and independent observers.”

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

Fonte: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 29

“It’s important to realize that philosophical naturalism is, like atheism, a provisional view. It’s not the kind of worldview that says, “I know there is no god,” but the kind that says, “Until I see some evidence, I don’t accept the existence of gods.””

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

Fonte: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 95

“After all, what new insights has religion produced in the last century?”

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

Fonte: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 17

“The question to ask believers is this: “Does it really matter whether what you believe about God is true—or don’t you care?” If it does matter, then you must justify your beliefs; if it doesn’t, then you must justify belief itself.”

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

Fonte: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 63

“Theology schools are the wisdom teeth of academia: useless and sometimes injurious remnants of earlier times. If you want to teach comparative religion in college, you can do it in sociology departments, and if you want to teach the history of religion or of how scripture was confected, you can do it in history departments. There is no rationale for a modern secular university to teach theology, for it is the study of a nonexistent being and its supposed wants.”

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" Theology schools are dying https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2016/03/19/theology-schools-are-dying/" March 19, 2016

“I have to say that I find Ali’s argument truly revolting—not just because it’s intellectually weak and actually deceptive, but because it debases the entire realm of university scholarship of which I’m a member. When I see pieces like hers—lame apologetics that are meant from the outset to reinforce an opinion already held—I thank Ceiling Cat that I am a scientist: a member of the guild in which using your scholarship to reinforce emotional commitments is considered a sin.”

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" At last it happens: a professor blames ISIS’s sex slavery on the West https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2015/08/23/at-last-it-happens-a-professor-blames-isiss-sex-slavery-on-the-west/" August 23, 2015

““HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT?”
That’s the question you should always ask believers when they make unsupported assertions, ranging from “God is loving” to “Our souls live on after death.” The answer will always be one of two things: “The Bible says so,” or “I just know it to be true.” Neither of those are rational answers, but they satisfy the religious.
It is in fact the “how-do-you-know-that” query that really distinguishes New Atheism from Old. While atheists have always decried the lack of evidence for theism, it is the infusion of scientists and science-friendly people into atheism, starting with Carl Sagan and continuing on to Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris, Pinker, and Dennett, that has made us realize that religious dogmas are in fact hypotheses, and you need reasons and evidence for accepting them. If you have none, then you have no reason to believe in God.
Nevertheless, religious dogma does change, but not because theology has found better reasons. It’s because a.) science has shown the dogma to be false (Genesis, Adam and Eve, creation, the Exodus, etc.) or b.) secular morality has shown that the tenets of religious belief are no longer supportable”

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hell as a place of fire, limbo, discrimination against gays, the Mormons’ refusal to let blacks be priests, etc.
" Catholic official says that angels exist but are wingless http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/12/21/catholic-official-says-that-angels-exist-but-are-wingless/" December 21, 2013

“Faith is not a virtue, but a character flaw.”

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" Jesus ‘n’ Mo ‘n’ faith https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2016/09/14/jesus-n-mo-n-faith-3/" September 14, 2016

“Danger! Mushbrains and believers at work!”

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" New Mexico, with input from science and public, doesn’t water down its science standards https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/10/19/new-mexico-with-input-from-science-and-public-doesnt-water-down-its-science-standards/" October 19, 2017

“But the God hypothesis for morality and altruism has its own problems. It fails, for example, to specify exactly which moral judgments were instilled in people by God and which, if any, might rest on secular reason. It doesn’t explain why slavery, torture, and disdain for women and strangers were considered proper behaviors not too long ago, but are now seen as immoral. For if anything is true, God-given morality should remain constant over time and space. In contrast, if morality reflects a malleable social veneer on an evolutionary base, it should change as society changes. And it has.”

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

Fonte: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 177

“Most of the world’s believers reject these claims (i. e., of Scientology, Mormonism, and Christian Science) as blatantly false. But that’s only because these three religions are fairly new. They were founded in the last two centuries, and we see their origin not as divine but as obvious fabrications of humans—in the case of Joseph Smith, of a con man. But if you look with equally critical eyes at the doctrines of older faiths, their tenets seem equally bizarre.”

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

Fonte: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 83

“A well-understood and testable hypothesis like sexual selection surely trumps an untestable appeal to the inscrutable caprices of a creator.”

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Fonte: Why Evolution is True (2009), p. 240

“I am SO tired of this trope. It may indeed be the case that we can’t justify a priori via philosophical lucubrations that we arrive at the truth about nature only by using the methods of science. My answer to that is increasingly becoming, “So bloody what?” The use of science is justified because it works, not because we can justify it philosophically. If we are interested in finding out what causes malaria, no amount of appeal to a deity, philosophical rumination, listening to music, reading novels, or waiting for a revelation will answer that question. We have to use scientific methods, which, of course, is how causes of disease are found.”

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" A belated reply from Francis Spufford, who defends his faith http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/10/02/a-belated-reply-from-francis-spufford-who-defends-his-faith/" October 2, 2012

“When facing “scientific” arguments for God like these, ask yourself three questions. First, what’s more likely: that these are puzzles only because we refuse to see God as an answer, or simply because science hasn’t yet provided a naturalistic answer? In other words, is the religious explanation so compelling that we can tell scientists to stop working on the evolution and mechanics of consciousness, or on the origin of life, because there can never be a naturalistic explanation? Given the remarkable ability of science to solve problems once considered intractable, and the number of scientific phenomena that weren’t even known a hundred years ago, it’s probably more judicious to admit ignorance than to tout divinity.
Second, if invoking God seems more appealing than admitting scientific ignorance, ask yourself if religious explanations do anything more than rationalize our ignorance. That is, does the God hypothesis provide independent and novel predictions or clarify things once seen as puzzling—as truly scientific hypotheses do? Or are religious explanations simply stop-gaps that lead nowhere?…Does invoking God to explain the fine-tuning of the universe explain anything else about the universe? If not, then that brand of natural theology isn’t really science, but special pleading.
Finally, even if you attribute scientifically unexplained phenomena to God, ask yourself if the explanation gives evidence for your God—the God who undergirds your religion and your morality. If we do find evidence for, say, a supernatural origin of morality, can it be ascribed to the Christian God, or to Allah, Brahma, or any one god among the thousands worshipped on Earth? I’ve never seen advocates of natural theology address this question.”

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

Fonte: Faith vs. Fact (2015), pp. 156-157

“What might be considered a real contribution of science to religious belief is the empirical demonstration that some of those beliefs are wrong.”

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

Fonte: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 258

“If religion and science get along so well, why are so many scientists nonbelievers?”

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

Fonte: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 12

“The realization that God is not the source of morality is, I think, one of the great contributions of philosophy to clarifying human thought.”

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" Does religion promote morality? https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/11/28/does-religion-promote-morality/" November 28, 2017

“Just as many churches don’t want to be seen as rejecting science, neither do they wish to lag too far behind public morality, and so they often tweak their religious “truths” to reflect the zeitgeist.”

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

Fonte: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 71

“In religion, faith is a virtue. In science, faith is a vice.”

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Coyne (2011) " For the love of God... scientists in uproar at £1m religion prize http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/for-the-love-of-god-scientists-in-uproar-at-1631m-religion-prize-2264181.html" on independent.co.uk, April 6, 2011

“It doesn’t trivialize morality to argue that it is based on evolution and secular reason.”

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

Fonte: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 190

“Science’s results alone justify its usefulness, for it is, hands down, the single best way we’ve devised to understand the universe.”

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

Fonte: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 206

“So if morality is innate, it’s certainly malleable.”

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

Fonte: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 170

“This shows what we already know: belief may arise by indoctrination or authority, but is often maintained by social utility. But if no conceivable evidence can shake your faith in a theistic God, then you’ve deliberately removed yourself from rational discourse. In other words, your faith has trumped science.”

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

Fonte: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 120

“Claims of supernatural phenomena like the efficacy of prayer are rendered unfalsifiable by the assertion that “God will not be tested.” (Of course, if the tests had been successful, then testing God would have been fine!)”

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

Fonte: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 34

“Isn’t science, as some maintain, based on a “faith” that it’s good to pursue the truth? Hardly. The notion that knowledge is better than ignorance is not a quasi-religious faith, but a preference: we prefer to know the truth because accepting what’s false doesn’t give us useful answers about the universe.”

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

Fonte: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 211

“If Hawking’s world is “small,” well, at least what he found was testable, and might be true. Father de Souza’s claims are either untestable or have already been shown to be doubtful, and he has no evidence for any of them. In requiring people to believe fairy tales, de Souza’s world is not just small, but nonexistent.”

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" Catholic priest says that Hawking, while smart, didn’t solve the biggest questions of the universe https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2018/03/22/catholic-priest-says-that-hawking-while-smart-didnt-solve-the-biggest-questions-of-the-universe/" March 22, 2018