96 - Jerry Coyne - Why Evolution is True [Public Limited Version]

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 True
5:45 Public misperceptions of evolution
8:52 Evolution as a tinkerer: the example of hernias
11:08 Turtles, rhinos and tradeoffs
14:38 How mutation works
16:33 How speciation works (with an excerpt from Why Evolution Is True)
23:46 What people (including Darwin) misunderstand about speciation
28:38 Faith vs. Fact: why evolutionary biology has become the main political battleground of religion vs. science
33:42 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 vaccines
49:59 A reading from Evolution Is True