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It is time to stop seeing faith as a virtue, and to stop using the term "person of faith” as a compliment.
Jerry Coyne
Guilt is the great weapon of the Authoritarian Left, and we must resist it when it comes to endorsing free expression.
Jerry Coyne
If religion makes a society happier, there's no data to show that. All we see is that on average countries that are well off are less religious and are happier; and that goes for U. S. states as well. Checkmate, religionists.
Jerry Coyne
Science has a huge advantage over "other ways of knowing”: built-in methods of self-correction.
Jerry Coyne
Theists' typical response to these failures (i. e., of prayer to affect rates of healing) is to say either "God won't let himself be tested” or "That's not what prayer is about: it's simply a way to converse with God.” But you can bet that had these studies shown a large positive effect, the religious would be noisily flaunting this as evidence for God. The confirmation bias shown by accepting positive results but explaining away negative ones is an important difference between science and religion.
Jerry Coyne
Understanding reality, in the sense of being able to use what we know to predict what we don't, is best achieved using the tools of science, and is never achieved using the methods of faith. That is attested by the acknowledged success of science in telling us about everything from the smallest bits of matter to the origin of the universe itself-compared with the abject failure of religion to tell us anything about gods, including whether they exist.
Jerry Coyne
Atheism-at least the refusal to accept gods for which there's no evidence-is a logical outgrowth of science, and explains (at least to me) why, compared to Americans as a whole, scientists are so much more atheistic. If your career depends on establishing your confidence in a phenomenon proportional to the degree of evidence supporting it, then God is a no-go. The climate of doubt that is endemic-and essential-to the scientific enterprise is a true disaster for religion. Religious people know this, and that largely explains the many ways they attack science.
Jerry Coyne
Since neither Robbins, nor Hart, nor any other Sophisticated Theologian™ or Hipster Poet has produced any evidence for God that would convince someone who wasn't already a believer or an incipient believer, we needn't take their claims seriously. The reason people like Robbins sneer at the New Atheists' call for evidence is because believers don't have any.
Jerry Coyne
It's clear that this resistance stems largely from religion. You can find religions without creationism, but you never find creationism without religion.
Jerry Coyne
There is no compromise possible between catering to woke students and maintaining journalistic standards. We all know that this is true. If you feed the beast, it only gets hungrier, and is never full.
Jerry Coyne
In other words, (Helen) Pluckrose et al. got a lot more attention than I did. And that's fine. For they did, to my mind, expose a creeping rot in the floorboards of academic humanities, which has becoming increasingly solipsistic, tendentious, propagandistic, and devoid of critical thinking but besotted with intersectionalist ideology.
Jerry Coyne
What the comedy club in Montreal is doing is not only ridiculous, but is a prime example of virtue signaling: making a gesture to trumpet your own ideological purity, but a gesture that has no effect on society and no mitigation of injustice.
Jerry Coyne
Yes, the claim that sex in humans is not a binary is pretty much a lie, and is made on ideological rather than scientific grounds.
Jerry Coyne
As we know, wokeness prizes ideology and narrative over truth.
Jerry Coyne
Everyone else besides the faithful already knows that religion has nothing useful to say to science.
Jerry Coyne
Isn't it time for us to stop taking this nonsense seriously? I regard panpsychists as I regard theologians: they both make stuff up, none of what they say is testable, and they both actually get paid to foist nonsense on the world.
Jerry Coyne
Religion and xenophobia go together like hot dogs and mustard.
Jerry Coyne
Remember three things about censorship. First, it doesn't work to suppress art or words that you don't like. Second, trying to censor something just arouses interest in it, as well as resentment towards those who try to tell others what they can or cannot see. Third, exhibiting art or recommending that students read a book does not mean an endorsement of the image or contents.
Jerry Coyne
The editorial, very poorly written for a college full of smart students, shows how far this "hate speech” cancer has spread. Let me provide for you Coyne's Glossary for the words at issue: :"free speech”: Speech that you like because it comports with your ideology :"hate speech”: Speech you don't like because it challenges your ideology :"Nazi”: Anyone uttering "hate speech” (see above) :"White supremacist”: See "Nazi” :"emotional labor”: Having to argue your case rationally-something to be avoided at all costs when you can simply call people names.
Jerry Coyne
If you spend your life looking in vain for the Loch Ness Monster, stalking the lake with a camera, sounding it with sonar, and sending submersibles into its depths, and yet still find nothing, what is the more sensible view: to conclude provisionally that the monster simply isn't there, or to throw up your hands and say, "It might be there; I'm not sure?”.
Jerry Coyne
HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT?
Jerry Coyne
The question to ask believers is this: "Does it really matter whether what you believe about God is true-or don't you care?”.
Jerry Coyne
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