UFM.edu - Why Evolution is True: Interview with Jerry Coyne

Jerry Coyne is author of the book Why Evolution is True. He is professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago. His areas of expertise include: Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly), ecology, evolution, forensic use of DNA and genetics. Coyne holds a PhD in Evolutionary Biology from Harvard University and a BS in Biology from the College of William & Mary. In 2007, he was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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[geoden]

The reason science is so successful is because it is NEVER 100% sure of anything. It is always willing to accept new evidence that may prove an accepted fact to be wrong.

This is the opposite of dogma which claims 100% certainty without evidence. This is static doctrine which falls behind the advancement of knowledge and ensures it will ALWAYS get its ass kicked by ever-advancing science!

[elvirahx]

If you can challenge it, then you should. That's the point of scientific theory. Statistics prove that the evidence FOR evolution is greater than the evidence against it, of which there is none. Coyne isn't saying that there won't ever be evidence against it, but what we know of it now is that there isn't.

[HeX4869]

Nice hair.

[srgymnast1]

@geoden Religious "fact": something written in a dusty old book that you must follow. Why follow? Because you just do. Why not question it? Because you just don't. Why is it true? Because it's there. There's no evidence, just self delusion!

[sarevor]

@gtamafia2500 Me either. It's about the interpretation of data.

[gtamafia2500]

I do not believe In Evolution.

[me5o]

@1SavageDragon1

Oh, you theists and your long since destroyed points.

Just because there's a thing called "the theory of gravity", doesn't mean the phenomenon of gravity isn't a fact. Evolution is a fact. I understand that this particular fact makes you feel uneasy, which is why you're resisting it, but that's just too bad.

In conclusion: grow up, theists. We are apes and we will die. Take it on the chin, you babies.

[1SavageDragon1]

There is a reason evolution remains a theory...not "fact". This guy even says so in this video. @ 1:37

There are many "observations" that don't support evolution or rather macro-evolution.

[MADMANx511]

Evolution is on a minuscule scale, which creates large changes in organism over time. Evolution happens on the DNA level of an organism. Evolution happens to organisms to change and adapt to their environment, to be able to conquer our surrounds.

I find it funny how Creationists find it easier to believe in a God, and not hard evidence proving evolution.

[9CrystalDragon2]

@mrblacksheep1o1 he says both of those reasons are misguided, he does not believe, that to be true just that thats one of the reasons people give for why they don't believe in evolution.

[mrnarason]

1 person doesn't believe in evolution

[lubermanl]

@mrblacksheep1o1

no, he said that is one of the reasons people resist evolution. I don't think he accepts that premise either, as he describes those people as misguided. If you read or talk to religious people its a complaint they tend to make against atheists and people who accept evolution. I think it tends to levied more against atheists though. He may be an atheist and lumped it in there inadvertently.