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No Need to Be Coyne About It

By Joseph Lawler on 9.2.09 @ 12:35PM

Earlier this month I noted Jerry Coyne's New Republic review of Robert Wright's book The Evolution of God, mentioning at the time that an earlier, similar essay of Coyne's had provoked some interesting responses. Although it took a while, this one too has elicited what is really an evisceration from Jim Manzi. Manzi shows that Coyne, the scientist, has based his argument on a confused notion of randomness that in fact conflates several different meanings of the word random. Again, I think both the article and the response are well worth reading.