Quotes by Jerry A. Coyne

Jerry A. Coyne

All scientific progress requires a climate of strong skepticism.

Climate

Progress

Strong

Because of the hegemony of fundamentalist religion in the United States, this country has been among the most resistant to the fact of human evolution.

Country

Fundamentalist Religion

United States

Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn’t happen? That’s not academic freedom, but dereliction of duty.

Academic Freedom

Holocaust

Teacher

Come on, readers, give me one example of a question that religion has answered to everyone’s satisfaction – one example of a “truth” found in religion’s quest for truth.

Example

Giving

Quests

Damn, but science is just a constant feed of cool new facts and theories. Theology doesn’t come close.

Damn

Facts

Theory

Faith is a padlock of the mind, and few keys can open it.

Keys

Mind

Padlocks

Harmonizing religion and science makes you seem like an open-minded and reasonable person, while asserting their incompatibility makes enemies and brands you as “militant.” The reason is clear: religion occupies a privileged place in our society. Attacking it is off-limits, although going after other supernatural or paranormal beliefs like ESP, homeopathy, or political worldviews is not. Accommodationism is not meant to defend science, which can stand on its own, but to show that in some way religion can still make credible claims about the world.

Enemy

Esp

Political

If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing our ignorance to the miraculous work of a creator.

Giving Up

Ignorance

Research

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

Faith

Vices

Virtue

It takes a profound hypocrisy to try to reconcile for others things that you can’t reconcile for yourself.

Hypocrisy

Profound

Trying

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Academic Freedom

Answers

Atheism

Battle

Believe

Believer

Brain

Climate

Country

Damn

Development

Doubt

Enemy

Esp

Evil

Example

Facts

Faith

Fundamentalist

Fundamentalist Religion

Giving

Giving Up

Holocaust

Hypocrisy

Ignorance

Keys

Law

Mind

Mystery

Padlocks

Political

Profound

Progress

Proud

Quests

Reality

Religion

Research

Should

Strong

Superstitions

Teacher

Theory

Trying

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United States

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Quotes by Jerry A. Coyne

Jerry A. Coyne

All scientific progress requires a climate of strong skepticism.

Because of the hegemony of fundamentalist religion in the United States, this country has been among the most resistant to the fact of human evolution.

Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn’t happen? That’s not academic freedom, but dereliction of duty.

Come on, readers, give me one example of a question that religion has answered to everyone’s satisfaction – one example of a “truth” found in religion’s quest for truth.

Damn, but science is just a constant feed of cool new facts and theories. Theology doesn’t come close.

Faith is a padlock of the mind, and few keys can open it.

If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing our ignorance to the miraculous work of a creator.

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

It takes a profound hypocrisy to try to reconcile for others things that you can’t reconcile for yourself.

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