Jerry’s book Why Evolution Is True (2010) can be found here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/300564/why-evolution-is-true-by-jerry-a-coyne/
Faith vs Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible (2016) can be found here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/312382/faith-versus-fact-by-jerry-a-coyne/9780143108269/
Speciation (2004) by Jerry Coyne and H. Allen Orr can be found here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/speciation-9780878930890?cc=gb&lang=en&
Jerry’s blog: https://whyevolutionistrue.com/
Follow Jerry on Twitter @Evolutionistrue
Further References
Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now (2018); The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (2011)
Timestamps
3:30 Why Jerry wrote Why Evolution Is True5:45 Public misperceptions of evolution8:52 Evolution as a tinkerer: the example of hernias11:08 Turtles, rhinos and tradeoffs14:38 How mutation works16:33 How speciation works (with an excerpt from Why Evolution Is True)23:46 What people (including Darwin) misunderstand about speciation28:38 Faith vs. Fact: why evolutionary biology has become the main political battleground of religion vs. science33:42 A creationist road trip. 36:36 Scientists allying with religious groups. The work of the Templeton Foundation. 42:08 Belief in belief. 46:36 The biggest threats to rationality other than religion.47:10 The argument from evil; rejection of vaccines49:59 A reading from Evolution Is True
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