Tag: Jerry Coyne

Psychedelic trip created with generative AI technology

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 27, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, academic publishers, biologists, book reviewers, book reviews, C. W. Howell, Casey Luskin, David E. Levin, Denis Noble, Designer Science, ID critics, inventory, Jason Rosenhouse, Jerry Coyne, mathematicians, Michael Behe, National Center for Science Education, NCSE, Neo-Darwinism, New York University Press, North Carolina Law Review, obsession, Oxford University, scholarship, Wikipedia}

NCSE Still Exists! A Hallucinatory Book Review from Jason Rosenhouse

_{David Klinghoffer
October 27, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Rosenhouse is in the same gallery of shame that C. W. Howell is, and that resulted in Howell’s book being yanked by the publisher, NYU Press. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 26, 2026

Categories
Political Science
Science Reporting
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, decolonization, Emmet Fraizer, evidence, Jerry Coyne, LabX Media Group, legends, materialism, Michael Shermer, psychology, Scientific American, scientists, Smithsonian Magazine, Springer Nature, Steven Pinker, The Nation, truth, Why Evolution Is True, wokeness}

“Decolonize” Science? Wokeness Scrambles Scientific Journals and Writers

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 26, 2026

Political Science, Science Reporting, Scientific Reasoning

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Yes, “decolonization” does mean accepting legends in place of evidence, in order to show respect for the legends’ tellers and believers. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
October 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, Computations in Science Seminars, Conservation of Information, Darwinism, evolution, evolutionary search, evolutionists, information, intelligent design, James Shapiro, Jerry Coyne, Leo Kadanoff, mathematicians, Michael Behe, My Personal History with Information (series), Paul Nelson, slides, Third Way of Evolution, Travel, University of Chicago, Wheaton College}

My 2014 Talk at the University of Chicago

_{William A. Dembski
October 9, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Scientific Freedom

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After it had been announced on campus, Jerry Coyne, a prominent Darwinian biologist at the University of Chicago, tried to talk Leo into disinviting me. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 29, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Genetics
Origin of Life
Tagged
, A Universe from Nothing, Brian Miller, Bruce Gordon, Casey Luskin, chance, Dan Graur, design, ENCODE project, Jerry Coyne, junk DNA, junk RNA, Lawrence Krauss, Leonard Mlodinow, lizard brain, Michael Shermer, models, physicists, researchers, Richard Dawkins, Sarah Scoles, Science and Culture Today, Scientific American, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, survival, The God Delusion, The Grand Design, The Telegraph, universe, University of Houston}

In Science, Endless Competing Models Are a Warning Sign

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 29, 2026

Cosmology, Genetics, Origin of Life

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Some of us are old enough to remember when the origin of life was a question that science would answer — soon. But that was hundreds of promising theories ago. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 26, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science Reporting
Tagged
, ACLU, Big Bang, biochemists, Biology and Philosophy, books, C. W. Howell, David E. Levin, Del Ratzsch, Designer Science, Designer Science (series), EWTN, First Amendment Law Review, inaccuracies, intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, Jerry Coyne, John Maddox, Judge John E. Jones, judges, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Mary Katherine Hackney, media, Michael Behe, National Catholic Reporter, New York University Press, North Carolina Law Review, plagiarism, publishers, quotations, Reports of the National Center for Science Education, Roman Catholicism, Skeptical Inquirer, Steve Fuller, The Design Inference, University of Warwick, Wikipedia, William Dembski}

NYU Press Book Makes Fake Behe Quote a Linchpin of Its Case Against Intelligent Design

_{Casey Luskin
August 26, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science Reporting

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It’s quite a chain of errors, from the ACLU to Judge Jones to C. W. Howell. Each makes it worse than the one before. Read More ›

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
July 24, 2026

Categories
Anatomy
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, americans, anatomy, Aston Martin, back pain, bipedal skeleton, bipedalism, bridge design, bridges, Bristol University, Cambridge University, cars, Corvette, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, engineering, European Space Agency, evolution, horizontal beams, human back, human body, human spine, intelligent design, intervertebral discs, Jerry Coyne, King Charles III, Liberty University, Lucy Hyde, macroevolution, misuse, Nathan Lents, poor design, predictions, Prince Charles, quadrupedal skeleton, Responding to Lucy Hyde (series), Richard Dawkins, Stuart Burgess, Ultimate Engineering, vertebrae}

Misinformation About a Masterpiece: An Engineer Responds to a Colleague

_{Terrell Clemmons
July 24, 2026

Anatomy, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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"We have the anatomy department claiming the human spine is a bad design, whilst the engineering department is improving bridge design by copying it!" Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
July 9, 2026

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Tagged
, adaptations, biology, conscious purposiveness, determinism, Edmund Ware Sinnott, environment, epigenetics, Eva Jablonka, evolution, Evolution: The History of an Idea, freedom, George Levine, Georges Cuvier, history, homeostasis, inheritance, instinctive regulation, J. Scott Turner, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Jerry Coyne, Jessica Riskin, Lamarckism, Laurent Larson, Marion Lamb, motivation, neo-Darwinian synthesis, personality, Peter J. Bowler, Purpose and Desire, regeneration, Skeptic Magazine, teleology, The Power of Life, Yale University}

Re-evaluating Lamarck’s Contribution to Evolutionary Thought

_{Michael Flannery
July 9, 2026

Evolution, History of Science

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The rehabilitation of Lamarck and the important work of scholars of the past (i.e., Sinnott) and present (i.e., Turner) suggest an interesting conclusion. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
July 8, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheists, Christians, church history, compartmentalization, creator, culture, Disclosure Day, government, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Jerry Coyne, natural causes, nature, order, philosophers, Richard Dawkins, Romans, Rube Goldberg, Steven Spielberg, theology, UFOs, Ultimate Engineering, universe}

It’s Time for a “Disclosure Day” on Design in Nature

_{Brian Miller
July 8, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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The culture has been buzzing about Steven Spielberg’s latest, which depicts whistleblowers releasing evidence about UFOs that the government has hidden. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 24, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, argumentum ad omnes, argumentum ad populum, B. F. Skinner, brain reflexes, Censor of the Year, Censor of the Year Award, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Discovery Institute, Drosophila, free will, fruit flies, Jerry Coyne, libertarian free will, meat machines, morality, operant conditioning, parking lot, Robert Sapolsky, Sam Harris, self-contradiction, social compliance, sophistry, Why Evolution Is True}

Morality Is Unintelligible Without Free Will: A Reply to Jerry Coyne

_{Michael Egnor
June 24, 2026

Bioethics, Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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A moral society is something entirely different from a well-run pigeon farm or a flourishing bottle of fruit flies. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 18, 2026

Categories
Ethics
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, act of nature, atheist scientists, books, brains, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, free will, free will deniers, human dignity, human soul, humor, Jerry Coyne, meatware, Michael Egnor, morality, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, Robert Sapolsky, royalty checks, Sam Harris, The Atheist Press}

Michael Egnor: Three Atheist Scientists Walk into a Book

_{David Klinghoffer
June 18, 2026

Ethics, Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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In the absence of free will, “morality” can make no claims about anything. It's only an illusion projected by the meatware of our brains. Read More ›