You can find religions without creationism, but you never find creationism without religion. — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Theology is the post hoc rationalization of what you want to believe. — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Religion is based on dogma and belief, whereas science is based on doubt and questioning. — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Come on, readers, give me one example of a question that religion has answered to everyone's satisfaction - one example of a… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Because of the hegemony of fundamentalist religion in the United States, this country has been among the most resistant to the fact… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
The biogeographic evidence for evolution is now so powerful that I have never seen a creationist book, article, or lecture that has… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
“Many people require more than just evidence before they’ll accept evolution. To these folks, evolution raises such profound questions of purpose, morality,… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Harmonizing religion and science makes you seem like an open-minded and reasonable person, while asserting their incompatibility makes enemies and brands you… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
“Up to now, most atheists have simply criticized religion in various ways, but the point is to dispel it. In A Manual… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Science has only two things to contribute to religion: an analysis of the evolutionary, cultural, and psychological basis for believing things that… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share
“Many people require more than just evidence before they’ll accept evolution. To these folks, evolution raises such profound questions of purpose, morality, and meaning… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share
“since many traits can affect an individual's adaptation to it's environment (it's "fitness") natural selection can over eons sculpt an animal or plant into… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share
These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve. — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share
Some believers are fundamentalists about everything, but every believer is a fundamentalist about something. — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share
“In science's pecking order, evolutionary biology lurks somewhere near the bottom, far closer to phrenology than to physics. For evolutionary biology is a historical… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share
“There is an increasing (and disturbing) tendency of psychologists, biologists, and philosophers to Darwinize every aspect of human behavior, turning its study into a… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share
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… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share
“Life on earth evolved gradually beginning with one primitive life form – perhaps a self-replicating molecule – that lived more than 3.5 billion years… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share
Science has only two things to contribute to religion: an analysis of the evolutionary, cultural, and psychological basis for believing things that aren't true,… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share
“IDers argue that such traits, involving many parts that must cooperate for that trait to function at all, defy Darwinian explanation. Therefore, by default,… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share
“Natural selection is not a master engineer, but a tinkerer. It doesn't produce the absolute perfection achievable by a designer starting from scratch, but… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share
“Selection is both revolutionary and disturbing for the same reason: it explains apparent design in nature by a purely materialistic process that doesn't require… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share
