Jerry A. Coyne Quotes About Evolution

• Evolution tells us where we came from, not where we can go.

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  Jerry A. Coyne (2010). “Why Evolution is True”, p.218, OUP Oxford

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• It is clear, then, that whatever genetic heritage we have, it is not a straitjacket that traps us forever in the "beastly" ways of our forebears. Evolution tells us where we came from, not where we can go.

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  Jerry A. Coyne (2009). “Why Evolution is True”, p.251, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The biogeographic evidence for evolution is now so powerful that I have never seen a creationist book, article, or lecture that has tried to refute it. Creationists simply pretend that the evidence doesn't exist.

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  Jerry A. Coyne (2009). “Why Evolution Is True”, p.105, Penguin

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• The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.

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  Jerry A. Coyne (2009). “Why Evolution is True”, p.11, Oxford University Press, USA

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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.

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

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