Jerry A. Coyne is
at it again, with another mammoth review of a book on the
topic of evolution and belief in God in The New
Republic. It's 8,000 words, so I haven't had time to read
it, but I'm sure that the theme is similar to the
last one, which
provoked some
interesting reactions. The theme is that the fact of
Darwinian evolution precludes the existence of God.
I wasn't convinced by the 10,000 words in his earlier essay, so
I'm guessing that when I get around to reading it I won't find
this one convincing, either (Robert Wright, whose book is the one
Coyne is reviewing, writes in the comments, "I don't recognize
the book depicted in this review--and I wrote the book! Within a
few days I'll have a reply online that documents Jerry Coyne's
flagrant misrepresentations of my argument").
The problem Coyne's arguments is that they more or less boil down
to "I'm a super-smart scientist, smarter than you, therefore God
doesn't exist." It's a time-honored approach, but his tone is
slightly too concialiatory (skip to about :50 in the clip):
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