Tag Archives: Jerry Coyne

The Image of God Under Attack

The image of God in humans is under attack. Evolutionary doctrine leads many thinkers to conclude that there is no essential difference between us and and any other organism. (By “evolutionary doctrine,” I am referring specifically to the version of evolutionary theory that says all organisms have come to be through blind, unguided processes of …

January 28, 2012 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (19)

Coyne Responds on Free Will

Jerry Coyne has responded to my piece (and others’) yesterday on his Free Will article in USAToday. He begins, Predictably, at his own website the Thinking Christian says that the assumption of natural laws that absolutely determine our choices is an unjustified a priori conclusion, not supported by science itself. (Nope, it’s a conclusion based …

January 3, 2012 – 11:53 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, Origins and Science | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments (18)

Jerry Coyne: “Why you don’t really have free will” – USATODAY.com

Jerry Coyne, who knows a lot about biology, doesn’t know nearly enough about other things on which he claims to be an authority. If what had written were only on his blog I would ignore it, but USAToday published it online: “Why you don’t really have free will.” It includes, Now there’s no way to …

January 2, 2012 – 10:04 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, Origins and Science | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (169)

It Must Be Christmas: I Agree With Jerry Coyne!

I’ve been quite critical of University of Chicago biologist Jerry Coyne on more than one occasion, so I was quite surprised to find myself nodding in agreement with him today on a religion-related topic. He opened up this blog post saying, There’s a pretty dreadful piece by Tim Padgett in the latest online Time Magazine (I’m …

December 23, 2011 – 6:16 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in New Atheism, Postmodernism/ Relativism, The Faith, Thinking Christianly | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (3)

Coyne Was Right After All: Science Has Vanquished Christianity

I ended last night’s post by asking whether Jerry Coyne might have been right when he wrote, Many religious claims about the “truth” have already been disproven by science. There was a second part to that claim (that religion has never disproved science) which I invite you to continue responding to on that other thread. …

December 19, 2011 – 9:10 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences, New Atheism, Origins and Science | Tagged , , , | Comments (4)

Jerry Coyne: Intellectual Dishonesty, Or … ?

This is not the first time I’ve had occasion to ask Jerry Coyne, which is it?  Is it culpable ignorance or is it intellectual dishonesty? In light of the accusation he makes of Alvin Plantinga, “Remarkably stupid remarks by a sophisticated theologian,” one is tempted to wonder whether another term fits Coyne even better, one he …

December 18, 2011 – 5:51 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences, New Atheism | Tagged , , , | Comments (16)

David Heddle on Jerry Coyne

Thank you, David Heddle: Speaking of irony, Jerry’s little joke about [Thinking Christian as an] “oxymoron” in a post about debating is particularly ironic…. [From He Lives: Jerry Coyne, Slug] I didn’t even see that Jerry Coyne post you mentioned until just now, because this time he didn’t link to my blog. I only read …

October 26, 2011 – 7:42 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, New Atheism, Origins and Science | Tagged , , | Comments (1)

Friends and Bloggers

This morning at Panera Bread I ran into a good friend of mine, David Heddle, a professor of mathematics and physics who has recently re-activated his always interesting, frequently provocative blog, He Lives. I’m happy he’s blogging again, and I certainly recommend you follow him on it. On Monday he inaugurated the Jerry Coyne Lidless …

October 20, 2011 – 9:10 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , | Comments Off

Jerry Coyne: Either Culpable Ignorance, Or Else … ?

Update again, 10/20/11: I bid a hearty welcome to visitors from Dr. Coyne’s website. (I appreciate the link, Dr. Coyne.) He seems to have a policy of not allowing my comments to remain on his site, except for those that he can twist to suit his own purposes, as I have indicated in my earlier …

August 4, 2011 – 6:00 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Ethics, New Atheism | Tagged , , | Comments (134)

“On naturalism, or: Good and bad extrapolations in science | Uncommon Descent”

Just a small problem here: In his opening article, Eric McDonald highlights a critical flaw in Coyne’s scientific case against free will: scientists haven’t put forward any arguments in defence of determinism [From A very revealing post on naturalism, or: Good and bad extrapolations in science | Uncommon Descent] Oops.

July 12, 2011 – 4:07 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , | Comments (416)