Jerry Coyne: Why Evolution is True 

I’m a Christian and currently reading this book. Highly recommend. Believe it or not, it was recommended to me by several other Christians.

Good to see Mr Coyne on the program.

Thank you Dr. Coyne for your work in trying to educate a largely ignorant public.

Lol ... From the book … The Church and Mental Health, Published 1953. Phillips Brooks saw the difference between morality based upon anxiety and that based upon faith. “Why is it,” a friend once asked Brooks, “that some of these men who call themselves atheists, seem to lead such moral lives?” “They have to,” replied Brooks. “They have no God to forgive them if they don’t.”

Intelligence = Discovery, Religion = Ignorance

Jerry maintains his sense of humor over a wide range of sad and frustrating statistics about the US antiscience movements.

I read both of the books they talked about, the best book ever written about evolution and the best book ever written about the stupidity of religions.

I love this man. His book "why evolution is true" is so simple, yet detailed at the same time. It explains evolution so clearly, even an 8 years old can pick it up.

Jerry Coyne for president and Sean Carroll for VP. Or reverse. Doesn't matter.

His name is Jerry and he looks almost like a copy of Jerry Lewis, who I loved as a kid. Thank you, professor Coyne, for your amazing work!

Evolution is a fact.A scientific theory is a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment. Such fact-supported theories are not "guesses" but reliable accounts of the real world

Very important topics, this is enthralling to watch. I wish more people were more intellectually curious about biology!

Facts and logic destroys theist nonsense every time

I went to Catholic school, we were taught evolution, we never questioned it as a 'theory'.

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Annie's voice is just as soothing and beautiful as ever. Man, I love all three of you, this was a treat to watch! I love discussions! XD

Thanks Dr. Coyne. I have your book. Wonderful.

Coyne used a very restricted definition to come up with his 1-in-5 believers in "naturalistic" evolution. You could understand and accept the whole of the science, including the timeline, and still be excluded as a "true believer" by his definition.

Where did it all start, magnetism, electro-magnetism, electricity, the three forces. All those had to come first otherwise there would be no evolution. To start with evolution is to start late in the game. A whole lot had come before. How did life start way before evolution? There are supposedly fourteen races of men,, we do not know who were the first, and as there have been periodic partial dissolutions that complicates it as well.

Jerry Coyne is a star

From the book … Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable by Ivor H. Evans … First published 1817. … Odium theologicum (o di um the o loj ikim) (Lat.). The bitter hatred of rival theologians. No wars so sanguinary as holy wars; no persecutions so relentless as religious persecutions; no hatred so bitter as theological hatred.

The audiobook version is on RU-vid.

Nice conversation ! Coyne fan here . Fight the good fight FFRF !

I love it ❤

Lol Beatles made Mr. Coyne an atheist.

In Why Evolution Is True, Coyne explains that the biological species concept is “the one that evolutionists prefer when studying speciation, because it gets you to the heart of the evolutionary question. Under the \inr{BSC}, if you can explain how reproductive barriers evolve, you’ve explained the origin of species.”\fn{42 42. Wells, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design, Chapter Five ("The Ultimate Missing Link"), pp. 49-59. }}{Coyne} Theoretically, reproductive barriers arise when geographically separated populations diverge genetically. But Coyne describes five “cases of real-time speciation” \vb\item that involve a different mechanism: chromosome doubling, or “polyploidy.”

Thank u

How interesting. So Coyne became an atheist as the result of a "religious experience", so to speak.

Another good show, thanx.

This is so sad

to believe in Evolution it requires great amount of FAITH that enough change over time over enough time will give u a new organism. This is nothing but blind faith that Time will solve the problem.this is utter ignorance this is not science

Nice. There are real eloquent scientists in the world who understand that we are part of nature, not part of fairy tails.