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Jerry Coyne

At National Review TV, Berlinski on Sidney Hook and the Challenge of Recognizing God’s Handiwork

Someone had asked Hook what he'll say if, when he dies, he finds that counter to his belief when still alive, there's a God after all waiting to greet him. Read More ›
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More From Jerry Coyne

We should not automatically assume that the occurrence of duplicated and diverged genes in nature happened by unguided, Darwinian processes. Read More ›
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Close-up of a fruit fly, fruit fly, vinegar fly (Drosophila Melanogaster) on apple, AI generated
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Praised be Darwin! Do Fruit Flies Bust Behe?

Fruit flies are a cherished subject of such investigations because of their rapid reproduction, going from birth to death in thirty days. Read More ›

Jerry Coyne Attacks Evolution-Skeptic With Namecalling in Nature

In a recent book review in Nature, Jerry Coyne had unkind words for a questioner who raised his hand after Coyne gave a talk against intelligent design at the Alaska Bar Association. Coyne wrote: After lecturing this spring to the Alaska Bar Association on the debate over intelligent design and evolution, I was approached at the podium by a young lawyer. The tight-lipped smile, close-cropped hair and maniacal gleam in his eyes told me that he was probably a creationist out for blood. I was not wrong. (Jerry Coyne, “Selling Darwin: Does it matter whether evolution has any commercial applications?,” reviewing The Evolving World: Evolution in Everyday Life by David P. Mindell, in Nature, Vol 442:983-984 (August 31, 2006), emphasis Read More ›

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