Jerry Coyne on the Odd Couple: Why Science and Religion Shouldn't Cohabit

Loud voices from both the religious and scientific communities are proclaiming that there is no conflict between science and religion-indeed, that they have much to gain from each other. I will show that this claim is flatly wrong. Religion and science are in deep conflict, and are in fact incompatible ways of viewing the world and understanding what is true in our universe. I explain this incompatibility, show the various ways that people try (and fail) to accommodate science and faith, demonstrate the tactics used by theologians to harmonize scientific findings with religious dogma, and explore the attacks on science that invariably accompany claims that science and religion are best friends.

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[WarriorOfWriters]

birds evolved from land dwelling animals

[CelestialLoveKitty]

Look up "What Genesis Got Wrong" on YouTube and watch all 14 parts.

[TwennyGeee]

Please wake up. Please stop spreading lies in your own confusion.

[OccamKant]

If you think that the creation story is so, um, accurate, then explain how there are days before there is a sun? In fact, explain how the earth isn't a lifeless ball of ice without a sun?

Also - it claims that humans were created out of clay - at least, Adam was, and Eve was created from adam's rib (making her a clone of adam, so she/he would be Steve, not Eve). Evolution makes it pretty clear we weren't made from clay, and certainly not from each other's ribs.

Go back to school.

[Thatty Stehli]

well said

[Carl Arnold]

"3rd day vegetation-5th day FISH & BIRDS!-6th day animals then humans" Genesis 1

PERFECTLY paradigming EVOLUTION 3,500 years before Wallace/Darwin.

HOW FUCKING IGNORANT is he of his OWN DISCIPLINE?! An indisputable boilerplate of "the SUPREME achievement of the human intellect"(COYNE), and this ass-fag who "is resistant to religion" DOESN'T KNOW OF IT?!

Proves YOU CAN make contemn of a group based PURELY upon PROPAGANDA and desire to feel SUPERIOR. A "Coyne" should know from 75 years ago!

[travwil2461951]

"One actually could argue" just as your statements prove.

[travwil2461951]

Please do not repeat it. I agree to you on that.

[travwil2461951]

WOW another believer who can make any statement contrary to the facts. But I'm sure he can not possibly be wrong as god is never wrong.

[OccamKant]

Stephen Hawking has a speech impediment as well, and I suppose you might call him homely.

It's a good thing for everyone that morons like you aren't in charge of anything.