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“One can meet all the emotional requisites of a human—except for the assurance that you’ll find a life after death—without the superstitions of religion.”

Jerry Coyne book Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible

Source: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. xxi

Life , Death , Religion

“Above all, religion, faith healing, and alternative medicine all show the diagnostic feature of faith: an agenda not to find the truth, but to support one’s biases, emotions, and personal beliefs.”

Jerry Coyne book Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible

Source: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 238

Truth , Faith , Religion , Support

“Ironically, as the credibility of creationists grows smaller, their voices get louder.”

Jerry Coyne book Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible

Source: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 15

“Tiny, nonfunctional wings, a dangerous appendix, eyes that can’t see, and silly ear muscles simply don’t make sense if you think that species were specially created.”

Jerry Coyne

Source: Why Evolution is True (2009), p. 64

Thinking , Sense

“We now have many of the answers that once eluded Darwin, thanks to two developments that he could not have imagined: continental drift and molecular taxonomy.”

Jerry Coyne

Source: Why Evolution is True (2009), p. 90

Imagination

“The biogeographic evidence for evolution is now so powerful that I have never seen a creationist book, article, or lecture that has tried to refute it. Creationists simply pretend that the evidence doesn’t exist.”

Jerry Coyne

Source: Why Evolution is True (2009), p. 88

Books

“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.”

Jerry Coyne

Source: Why Evolution is True (2009), p. 192

Religion , Country

“It is curious that those who claim such firm knowledge about God’s nature and works become silent when asked about God’s methods.”

Jerry Coyne book Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible

Source: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 149

God , Nature , Knowledge

“Religion has no warrant and no method for decreeing what is and what is not beyond science.”

Jerry Coyne book Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible

Source: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 227

Religion , Science

“In the end, a theory that can’t be shown to be wrong can never be shown to be right.”

Jerry Coyne book Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible

Source: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 34

“After all, by what lights can you see atheism as a “leap of faith”? What is the “faith” there? Failure to accept gods is no more a leap of faith than is doubting the existence of the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, or Santa Claus. It’s not “faith” when you refuse to accept a proposition for which there’s no evidence.”

Jerry Coyne

" Self-abasing atheist at the Guardian calls atheism is a “leap of faith” https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2015/10/29/self-abasing-atheist-at-the-guardian-says-that-atheism-is-a-leap-of-faith/" October 29, 2015

God , Faith , Failure , Light

“One child dead because of superstition is one too many.”

Jerry Coyne

" Vaccination-exemption law makes its way through the California legislature https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2015/06/26/vaccination-exemption-law-makes-its-way-through-the-california-legislature/" June 26, 2015

Dead

“In fact, changes like the elimination of limbo don’t come from new information, but from secular currents in society that make church dogma seem insupportable or even barbaric.”

Jerry Coyne book Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible

Source: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 71

Change

“But all that changed when Darwin explained those designlike features by natural selection. The best evidence for God simply vanished.”

Jerry Coyne book Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible

Source: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 78

God , Nature , Change

“The different claims among these faiths have consequences, for they’ve produce endless misery over the course of history…. Clearly, religions aren’t incompatible only with science: they’re incompatible with one another…. This farrago of conflicting and irresolvable claims about reality stands in stark contrast to science.”

Jerry Coyne book Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible

Source: Faith vs. Fact (2015), pp. 85-86

Faith , Religion , History , Reality

“This book lays out the main lines of evidence for evolution. For those who oppose Darwinism purely as a matter of faith, no amount of evidence will do—theirs is a belief not based on reason.”

Jerry Coyne

Source: Why Evolution is True (2009), p. xiv

Books , Faith

“The rational scrutiny of religious faith involves asking believers only two questions:

How do you know that?

What makes you so sure that the claims of your faith are right and the claims of other faiths are wrong?”

Jerry Coyne book Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible

Source: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 25

Faith , Question

“We humans have many vestigial features proving that we evolved. The most famous is the appendix.”

Jerry Coyne

Source: Why Evolution is True (2009), p. 60

“Anybody who claims that people don’t cherry-pick their morality from the Bible, choosing that which comports with their extra-Biblical notions of what’s good and bad, is simply blind.”

Jerry Coyne

" Readers’ beefs of the week http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2014/09/13/readers-beefs-of-the-week-3/" September 13, 2014

People

““Blasphemy” and “heresy” are terms of religion, not science.”

Jerry Coyne book Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible

Source: Faith vs. Fact (2015), p. 70

Religion , Science