{"id":6709,"date":"2016-01-22T12:47:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T12:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/01\/22\/edward-feser-on-jerry-a-coyne\/"},"modified":"2016-01-22T12:47:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T12:47:03","slug":"edward-feser-on-jerry-a-coyne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/01\/22\/edward-feser-on-jerry-a-coyne\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Feser on Jerry A. Coyne"},"content":{"rendered":"

In  Omnibus of Fallacies<\/a>, Ed Feser applies his formidable analytic and polemical skills to that sorry specimen of scientism, Jerry Coyne.  The First Things<\/em> review begins like this:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Faith versus Fact<\/em> is some kind of achievement. Biologist Jerry Coyne has managed to write what might be the worst book yet published in the New Atheist genre. True, the competition for that particular distinction is fierce. But among other volumes in this metastasizing literature, each has at least some small redeeming feature. For example, though Lawrence Krauss\u2019s A Universe from Nothing<\/em> is bad as philosophy, it is middling as pop science. Christopher Hitchens\u2019s God Is Not Great<\/em> was at least written by someone who could write like Christopher Hitchens. Though devoid of interest, Sam Harris\u2019s Letter to a Christian Nation<\/em> is brief. Even PZ Myers\u2019s book The Happy Atheist<\/em> has at least one advantage over Coyne\u2019s book: It came out first. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Why do I refer to Coyne as a "sorry specimen of scientism?"  Is that a nice thing to say?  See here<\/a>, for starters.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In  Omnibus of Fallacies, Ed Feser applies his formidable analytic and polemical skills to that sorry specimen of scientism, Jerry Coyne.  The First Things review begins like this: Faith versus Fact is some kind of achievement. Biologist Jerry Coyne has managed to write what might be the worst book yet published in the New Atheist … Continue reading “Edward Feser on Jerry A. Coyne”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191,245,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism-and-theism","category-polemics","category-scientism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}