Post by Wykked Wytch on Dec 15, 2011 1:40:03 GMT -5
(www.algemeiner.com/2011/12/14/severe-weather-alert-dr-jerry-coyne-militant-atheistic-biologist-is-blowing-very-hot-air-in-chicago/)
He opens with a jab not only against Dr. Jerry Coyne, but against P.Z. Myers as well (and can't be bothered to spell the latter's name consistently)...
Goes on to insult Coyne's abilities as a professor...
Declares him to be a self-deluded fanatic...
"Implies" that he is mentally ill...
and insults his writing style (which, as we all know, is obviously the basis of all his arguments).
TL;DR: Moshe is butthurt because Dr. Jerry Coyne called a spade a spade.
If I had a dollar for every ad hominem and quote mine in this article, Bill Gates would be working for me.
More impressive, however, is this scathing reply for Terri-Lynn McCormick, the wife of Noble Laureate Dr. Jack Szostak (who Moshe quote-mined in the article):
He opens with a jab not only against Dr. Jerry Coyne, but against P.Z. Myers as well (and can't be bothered to spell the latter's name consistently)...
Of all the new age, “militant” atheists with whom I am familiar, only P.Z. Myers seems able to out-perform Dr. Jerry Coyne, of the University of Chicago, in sheer crudeness, abrasiveness, and obnoxiousness.
Goes on to insult Coyne's abilities as a professor...
judging by the time and energy Coyne seems to devote to his blog, Why Evolution is True, one wonders if his students could possibly be getting anything other than sloppy-seconds.
Declares him to be a self-deluded fanatic...
Most revealing of all is Coyne’s confession that he has “trouble believing” that Berlinski is really an agnostic. I find this intriguing. Why is it difficult for Coyne to believe such a thing? As far as I’m concerned, the answer is obvious. Dr. Jerry Coyne is a fanatic. A fanatic is someone who is so emotionally and psychologically bound up with their beliefs, that they are incapable of considering another point of view.
"Implies" that he is mentally ill...
While Coyne’s inability to control his adolescent impulses to crudely insult his opponent – so much so that it leaves us wondering if he simply forgot to take his medication – does not necessarily invalidate his actual argument, it definitely raises some red flags.
and insults his writing style (which, as we all know, is obviously the basis of all his arguments).
Excuse me Jerry, but if Berlinski’s prose is awkward, then yours could only be described as quadriplegic. On the other hand, if Berlinski’s writing is the most exquisite bottle of French Bordeaux wine, yours is a watered-down quart bottle of Ripple. I’m sure an august institution like the University of Chicago has some wonderful creative writing courses…Just do it, Jerry.
TL;DR: Moshe is butthurt because Dr. Jerry Coyne called a spade a spade.
If I had a dollar for every ad hominem and quote mine in this article, Bill Gates would be working for me.
More impressive, however, is this scathing reply for Terri-Lynn McCormick, the wife of Noble Laureate Dr. Jack Szostak (who Moshe quote-mined in the article):
How dare you misrepresent my husband. Your quote from the Scientific American article blatantly distorts his meaning. It is virtually impossible to imagine the cell we know now to emerging from the pre-biotic earth. He and others have, over many years, been showing incrementally how an RNA cell might have been created on early earth. There is nothing in my husband’s work that suggests otherwise. It is quite sickening that you would try to make him, a steadfast rationalist and atheist, into a propopent for I.D. You are in complete disagreement with Prof. Jack Szostak. Unfortunately for you his opinion is backed up by facts and mountains of results from peer reviewed research.
Please refrain from misrepresenting his opinions or work again. We consider it slander.
Please refrain from misrepresenting his opinions or work again. We consider it slander.
