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Newsletter Nr. 572
Amsterdam, June 14th, 2015


WILBER VS. COYNE - On The Conflict Between Science and Religion and the (Im)possibility of a Resolution - FRANK VISSER


Jerry Coyne, professor in the department of ecology and evolution at Chicago University and specialized in evolutionary genetics, counts as a hard-nosed defender of neo-Darwinism, against assaults from the field of religions and spirituality. As an atheist he's in the company of the New Atheists, sometimes called the Four Horsemen, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett (the fourth one, Christopher Hitchens, recently died). Around the Darwin celebration year he published Why Evolution is True (2009). Recently a new book came out from his hand: Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible (2015). Coyne argues that "accommodationism", the belief that science and religion can be reconciled, fails for many reasons. In his opinion, religion has increasingly lost ground to science, and will do so even more in the future, because science is simply the best method to discover fact about reality.


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