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• These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Facts, Mystery, Should

  Jerry A. Coyne (2009). “Why Evolution Is True”, p.213, Penguin

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• Because of the hegemony of fundamentalist religion in the United States, this country has been among the most resistant to the fact of human evolution.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Country, Fundamentalist Religion, United States

  "Why Evolution is True". Book by Jerry A. Coyne, 2009.

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• Come on, readers, give me one example of a question that religion has answered to everyone's satisfaction - one example of a "truth" found in religion's quest for truth.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Giving, Example, Quests

  "Do Both Science and Faith Produce Truth?". "Why Evolution is True" blog by Jerry Coyne, whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com. August 11, 2012.

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• It takes a profound hypocrisy to try to reconcile for others things that you can't reconcile for yourself.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Profound, Hypocrisy, Trying

  "The Disingenuous Professor Ruse". "Why Evolution is True" blog by Jerry Coyne, whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com. July 29, 2012.

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• You can find religions without creationism, but you never find creationism without religion.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Creationism

  Jerry A. Coyne (2010). “Why Evolution is True”, p.16, OUP Oxford

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• A well-understood and testable hypothesis like sexual selection surely trumps an untestable appeal to the inscrutable caprices of a creator.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Trump, Caprice, Hypothesis

  Jerry A. Coyne (2010). “Why Evolution is True”, p.260, Oxford University Press

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• Some believers are fundamentalists about everything, but every believer is a fundamentalist about something.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Believer, Fundamentalist

  "An Aphorism for Atheism". "Why Evolution is True" blog by Jerry Coyne, whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com. September 03, 2013.

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