If Darwinian biologist Jerry Coyne hadn’t existed, we would have had to invent him

Now, understand, for many of us, inventing Darwinian evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne might be a theological problem. So we are happy to discover him along the path:





A shimmering example of atheist idiocy (there is no other word for it) is Jerry Coyne’s recent argument, at Why Evolution Is True, against God’s existence in his post on David Attenborough’s agnosticism. Attenborough, who is a Darwinist producer of nature films (quite good films I must say, despite the Darwinist taint), was interviewed about his views on God.

To Coyne’s chagrin, Attenborough declares that he is agnostic about God’s existence. Attenborough raises common objections to theism (e.g., the problem of evil), but he invokes a rather nice metaphor about a termite mound. He points out that termites, blind and busily working away in a mound, are unaware of human observers. Their unawareness is not evidence that an observer doesn’t exist — they lack the sense organs to perceive the observer. Attenborough says that is why he is agnostic — he doesn’t sense that God exists, but perhaps that is because he lacks the capacity to know God …

Coyne hops on this:

[O]f course, if a god wanted to make himself known to humans, he would have given them the sense organs to detect divinity.

Michael Egnor, “Jerry Coyne on Our “Divinity Sense Organs”” at Evolution News and Science Today




Wow.











But you know, every so often, Jerry gets it:





Darwinian Jerry Coyne Makes A Good Point About The Social Science Hoaxes





and





Are Our Political Views Coded In DNA? Jerry Coyne Is Not Really Convinced





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