Tag Archives: Jerry Coyne

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)

The Public/Private Distinction and the Doofuses

Stanley Fish wrote a profound piece for the NY Times’ Opinionator Blog last Monday, “Are There Secular Reasons?” He’s addressing the Classic Liberal doctrine that public policy should always be decided on the basis of secular reasons, not religious ones; and in the end, he doubts there are any actually secular reasons. I read his …

February 26, 2010 – 4:37 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in The Faith | Tagged , , , | Comments (38)

Miscellanea

Jerry Coyne, atheistic evolutionist, is blogging now. Darwin’s “Sacred Cause:” How Opposing Slavery Could Still Enslave Dechristianizing a Church Encyclopedia Happy Darwin Day?

February 17, 2009 – 7:03 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Miscellanea | Tagged , | Comments (1)

Creationism and ID: Definition or Rhetoric?

This entry is part 2 of 8 in the series Is ID Creationism?

Yesterday I tried to set aside a question about the relation between creationism and intelligent design, but bobxxx commented, I have a few things to say about creationism and intelligent design. I think people who pretend these are different ideas are being dishonest. Invoking creationism is the same as invoking supernatural magic. Invoking intelligent design …

February 3, 2009 – 9:53 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , , | Comments (17)

Jerry Coyne’s Line In the Sand

Yesterday in a very quick post I pointed to an inconsistency in Jerry Coyne’s New Republic article, “Seeing and Believing,” which is a critical review of two new books by the theistic evolutionists Kenneth Miller and Karl Giberson. Today I must mention several things I really appreciate about what he wrote, and offer some suggestions …

February 2, 2009 – 4:24 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (5)

A Man of Great Faith

In his critical review in The New Republic of two theistic evolutionists, anti-theistic biologist Jerry Coyne speaks about various views of our fine-tuned universe. Contrasting materialist science with theism, he writes, Also, scientists have other explanations, ones based on reason rather than on faith. Perhaps some day, when we have a “theory of everything” that …

February 1, 2009 – 2:33 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , | Comments (2)