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 Send to email | Does Jerry Coyne read his own blog? in Culture Wars |  By Thoughts
el 20-Dec-2011 | If he does, he might remember that he already wrote this blog post. That was less than a year ago. I responded then, so have little to add.
One thing is worth noting. Coyne's complaint is that the government is funding "accommodationism" because one page on the award-winning and widely loved Understanding Evolution website addresses misconceptions about evolution, including the idea that evolution is at odds with religious belief.
Coyne is hardly the first person to think that this somehow gets the government in trouble ("funding theology" is his phrase). In 2003, creationist Larry Caldwell filed a suit on behalf of his wife, suing the NSF (for funding the website) and professors at the University of California (which runs the website). The couple alleged that the website "offended" them and caused further harm by making them feel like an "outsider." They claimed that the website's discussion of religious views on evolution violated the First Amendment by not discussing religious groups who set themselves at odds with evolution.
A state judge and a federal judge dismissed the suit with prejudice, saying that the Caldwells had not been harmed in a way that merited the courts' time. If Jerry Coyne can't be arsed to read his own blog, let alone to familiarize himself with the history of the issue he's opining on, we can make the same judgment. Read the comments on this post...
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 | Thoughts From Kansas |  Blogger | Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that |
| Does Jerry Coyne read his own blog? | | If he does, he might remember that he already wrote this blog post. That was less than a year ago. I responded then, so have little to add.
One thing is worth noting. Coyne's complaint is that the government is funding "accommodationism" because one page on the award-winning and widely loved Understanding Evolution website addresses misconceptions about evolution, including the idea t [..] Read complete article | | Published 20-Dec-2011 by Thoughts in Culture Wars
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| Thoughts From Kansas | Blogger | Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that |
| In Which I Disagree with Jerry Coyne | | On Monday I posted a reply to Jerry Coyne's clique-ish and philosophically naive report on a talk he didn't see. I thought this would be a useful exercise because:
Coyne is a former professor of mine, I respect him, and don't want to see him embarrass himself.
High school-level cliqueishness seems unbecoming in a tenured professor.
Ph [..] Read complete article | | Published 16-Sep-2009 by Thoughts in Culture Wars
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| Thoughts From Kansas | Blogger | Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that |
| Jerry Coyne agrees while being disagreeable |  Attention conservation notice: A couple thousand words that can be summarized as: "Someone is wrong on the internet."
Jerry Coyne has a longish reply to my post yesterday. He seems quite upset about it. He seems to think I'm very, very wrong. And yet he cannot manage to characterize my argument correctly, and offers nothing at all that would refute my argument (or e [..] Read complete article | | Published 26-Dec-2010 by Thoughts in Culture Wars
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| Thoughts From Kansas | Blogger | Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that |
| Minor Coyne snark | | John Pieret reads Jerry Coyne so you don't have to. He notes that Coyne's experience at a moderate church reading group sounds awfully accommodationist, and it does!
Of course, "accommodationist" is a highly mutable term, so I'm sure Jerry will say he isn't really, and the label doesn't really matter. The important thing is that Coyne's experience seems to have planted at least a litt [..] Read complete article | | Published 31-Jan-2011 by Thoughts in Creationism
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| Thoughts From Kansas | Blogger | Weblog of a University of Kansas ecology and evolutionary biology student, fighting for progressive politics, evolution, and endangered species.
Thoughts from Kansas You will notice that it lacks definiteness; that it lacks purpose; that it lacks coherence; that it lacks a subject to talk about; that it is loose and wabbly; that it wanders around; that |
| Point, Coyne-terpoint | | Jerry Coyne then: Rules for life:
If two friends tell you the same thing about yourself, it's probably true.Jerry Coyne now: thinks the several friends saying the same thing about him must be wrong:
more Gnu Atheist-bashing from fellow atheists... inspired by Michael Ruse's rants equating Gnus with Tea Partiers... Jacques Berlinerbrau at the C [..] Read complete article | | Published 26-Mar-2011 by Thoughts in Culture Wars
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