At his website Jerry Coyne wrote "It’s a travesty that the Wall Street Journal publishes tripe like this. Are they that desperate for copy?" The Wall Street Journal publishes tripe every week. The idea is to suck up to their moron customers.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/at-its-heart-science-is-faith-based-too-1457049114
Jerry Coyne Mar 7, 2016
This piece is profoundly misguided because it conflates the meaning of "faith" in science (confidence born of experience) with that of "faith" in religion (belief without sufficient evidence to command the assent of every reasonable person). I wrote about exactly the issues Emerson discusses in an article two years ago in Slate, "No Faith in Science," and recommend that he and others read it: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/11/faith_in_science_and_religion_truth_authority_and_the_orderliness_of_nature.html
As for this piece, I've criticized it on my website, Why Evolution Is True: https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/another-misguided-believer-claims-that-science-is-based-on-faith/
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
Saturday, January 27, 2018
March 7, 2016 - Jerry Coyne wrote a comment at the Wall Street Journal about an article that criticized what Jerry Coyne wrote. This is one of the Wall Street Journal's religious fucktard articles. Virtually all the Republicans who read the WSJ are evolution deniers, aka uneducated morons. My contempt for religious scum grows every day.
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