Read Faith Versus Fact : Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible (9780698195516) Online
Authors: Jerry A. Coyne
“Any sufficiently advanced technology”
:
Clarke 1973, p. 21.
“As a purely
practical
matter”
:
Giberson 2009, pp. 155â56.
“a religious faith that depended upon a belief”
:
Hutchinson 2011, p. 222.
The classic test for the truth of miracles
:
Hume 1975 [1748].
The Shroud of Turin
:
Philip Pullella, “Italian Scientist Reproduces Shroud of Turin,” Reuters, October 5, 2009, http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/10/05/us-italy-shroud-idUSTRE5943HL20091005; Inés San Martin, “Pope Francis to Venerate Famed Shroud of Turin,”
Crux
, November 5, 2014, http://www.cruxnow.com/church/2014/11/05/pope-francis-to-venerate-famed-shroud-of-turin-in-2015/.
In 2012, a statue of Jesus
:
J. White 2012.
One was suggested by the philosopher Herman Philipse
:
Philipse 2012, chapter 10.
“The body of Jesus probably decayed”
:
Funk and the Jesus Seminar 1998, p. 36.
Of course, more conservative Christians
:
Branch 1995.
“God created man in his
own
image”
:
Genesis 1:27.
“For since by man came death”
:
1 Corinthians 15:21â22; see also Romans 5:12â21.
As we've learned, Augustine
:
Augustine,
City of God,
Book XIV, http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/120114.htm.
“The account of the fall”
:
United States Catholic Conference 1994, Section 2, chapter 1, paragraph 7.
And Americans as a whole
:
Bishop et al. 2010.
The genetic evidence tells us
:
Y chromosome data from Francalacci et al. 2013; Poznik et al. 2013; Mendez et al. 2013. Other genome data from Garrigan and Hamer 2006.
But the evidence is even stronger
:
Henn, Cavalli-Sforza, and Feldman 2012; Li and Durbin 2011; Sheehan, Harris, and Song 2013.
“The denial of an historical Adam and Eve”
:
Mohler 2011.
“Really, without a doctrine of original sin”
:
Aus 2012.
“For the faithful cannot embrace”
:
Pius XII 1950; see also United States Catholic Conference 1994, Section 390.
“According to this model”
:
Alexander 2010â11.
The most “sophisticated” attempt
:
Enns 2012.
“One can believe that Paul is correct”
:
Ibid., p. 143.
“Paul's handling of Adam”
:
Ibid., p. 102.
“possess[ed] this land among themselves”
:
Book of Mormon, 2 Nephi 1:5â9; see also Ether 13:2.
But as with the existence of Adam and Eve
:
Genetic data on Native Americans from N. A. Rosenberg et al. 2002; Murphy 2002.
“DNA studies cannot be used”
:
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, “Book of Mormon and DNA Studies,” 2014, https://www.lds.org/topics/book-of-mormon-and-dna-studies.
On twelve occasions since 1982
:
Gallup 2014; Newport 2014b.
“The Teaching Authority of the Church”
:
Pius XII 1950, Section 36.
And because life itself
:
Pross 2012.
“in [a modern human's] large and well-developed brain”
:
Wallace 1870, p. 343.
“Religions can put up with all kinds”
:
Haught 2003, p. 185.
“What is
not
consistent with Christian belief”
:
Plantinga in Dennett and Plantinga 2010, pp. 4â5.
“The world of molecules”
:
Barbour 2000, p. 164.
While ID arguments
:
See Pennock 1999; Miller 1999, 2008; Coyne 2005; Orr 2005.
“With man, we find ourselves”
:
John Paul II 1996.
“Fortunately, in scientific terms”
:
Miller 1999, p. 241.
What we
have
shown
:
Sniegowski 1995.
“Contrary to popular belief”
:
Conway Morris 2003, p. xv.
“But as life re-explored adaptive space”
:
Miller 2008, pp. 152â53.
In his book
Wonderful Life
:
Gould 1989.
“a wildly improbable evolutionary event” and “a cosmic accident”
:
Ibid., pp. 44, 291.
“The idea that secondary causes”
:
Haught 2003, p. 57.
“The theory of evolution provided”
:
Ayala 2007, pp. 4â5.
“But any world that contains atonement”
:
Plantinga 2011, p. 59.
“arbitrary superfluity”
:
Grayling 2013.
Chapter 4: Faith Strikes Back
“When I was working as a pastor”
:
Aus 2012.
“there must always be many extraordinary facts”
:
Humphrey 1996, p. 71.
“No one infers a god”
:
Ingersoll 1879, p. 56.
“the attempt to argue for the truth”
:
Philipse 2012, p. 14.
“As far as the examination of the instrument goes”
:
Paley 1809, p. 18.
“Men think epilepsy divine”
:
Hippocrates of Cos, ca. 400 BCE. Quoted in Sagan 1996, p. 8.
“How wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap”
:
Bonhoeffer 1967, p. 311.
“A word of caution is needed”
:
Collins 2006, pp. 92â93.
As for the origin of life
:
Hazen 2005; Pross 2012; Keller, Turchyn, and Ralser 2014.
Neuroscience has already made
:
Baars, Banks, and Newman 2003; Pinker 2007 and personal communication; Dehaene and Changeux 2011.
“the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences”
:
Wigner 1960.
A full 69 percent of Americans
:
Bishop et al. 2010.
“It almost seems”
:
Miller 1999, pp. 228, 232.
Assuming that life can inhabit
:
Siegel 2013.
“What reasons can God have had”
:
Philipse 2012, p. 276.
“But why should we think of God”
:
Craig 2012, responding to Carroll 2012.
“The following proposition”
:
Darwin 1871, pp. 71â72.
“Scientists and humanists”
:
Wilson 1975, p. 562.
“the sudden appearance in consciousness”
:
Haidt 2001, p. 818.
“But humans are unique”
:
Collins 2006, pp. 27, 140.
“Selfless altruism . . . is quite frankly a scandal”
:
Ibid., p. 200.
“There are specific human experiences”
:
Linker 2014.
In his book
The Blank Slate
:
Pinker 2002, citing D. Brown 1991.
A survey of sixty “traditional societies”
:
Curry, Mullins, and Whitehouse in preparation.
There are also moral instincts
:
Thompson 1976; Hauser 2006.
In
The Better Angels of Our Nature
:
Pinker 2011.
The primatologist Frans de Waal
:
de Waal 2006, 2013; de Waal, Machedo, and Ober 2009.
capuchin monkeys seem to show
:
See the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KSryJXDpZo.
Indeed, even rats
:
Bartal, Decety, and Mason 2011; Bartal et al. 2014.
When you overlay animal “morality”
:
Brosnan 2011, 2013.
The work of the child psychologist Paul Bloom
:
Bloom 2013.
“There is no support”
:
Bloom 2014.
In fact, many aspects
:
Price 2012.
As Peter Singer explains
:
Singer 1981.
Explaining altruism toward relatives
:
See Dawkins 1976 and references therein.
I've just seen a video
:
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=570khFoaE4s.
“What evolution underwrites”
:
Plantinga 2011, p. 316.
“God created both us and our world”
:
Ibid., p. 269.
“This capacity for knowledge of God”
:
Plantinga 2000, p. 180.
“What I'll argue”
:
Plantinga in Dennett and Plantinga 2010, p. 17.
“There is superficial conflict”
:
Plantinga 2011, p. ix.
“Members of our species commonly believe”
:
Pinker 2005, p. 18.
“checker-shadow illusion”
:
The illusion can be seen at http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/lum_adelsonCheckShadow/.
The skeptic and science writer Michael Shermer
:
Shermer 2002, 2013.
“Were it not for sin and its effects”
:
Plantinga 2000, p. 214.
The anthropologist Pascal Boyer
:
Boyer 2002; for the development of religious beliefs over time, see Banerjee and Bloom 2013.
Rather, religion is likely to be
:
See Gould and Vrba 1982 for a discussion of exaptations.
“We see, then, that whether we compare”
:
Wallace 1870, p. 343.
“These abilities far surpass”
:
Plantinga 2011, p. 286.
“All knowledge that is not the genuine product of observation”
:
Lamarck 1820, p. 84 (my translation): “Toute connaissance qui n'est pas le produit réel de l'observation ou de conséquences tirées de l'observation, est tout-à -fait sans fondement, et véritablement illusoire.”
“science is not the only way of knowing”
:
Collins 2006, p. 229.
“confirmed to such a degree”
:
Gould 1983, p. 255.
Nevertheless, microeconomics has produced
:
Chetty 2013.
The physicist Sean Carroll
:
Carroll 2013.
“Philosophy of science”
:
See, for instance, http://evolvingthoughts.net/2010/06/evolution-quotes-feyman-on-religion-and-science.
Philosophy, for instance
:
For example, Dennett 1991, 1995; Kitcher 1982, 1985; Pennock 1999.
The Old Testament God
:
See Deuteronomy 20:17â18 and 1 Samuel 15:3.
Sam Harris, for instance
:
Harris 2011.
“Over a century after publication”
:
Charlton and Verghese 2010, pp. 94â95.
“Consider the kind of putative insights”
:
Kieran 2009, pp. 194â95.
“We know the ways in which humans express”
:
Comment by “Vaal,” May 8, 2012, http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/quote-of-the-day-mike-aus/#comment-216549.
“It is not merely the misapplication”
:
Hutchinson 2011, p. 175.