Jerry Coyne

Jerry Coyne, American biologist, discusses controversial topics including religious conflict in Gaza, struggles with freedom of speech, demands of the Maori people, affirmative action, the debate about race, and the rise of support for Palestine. Topics also include the motivations behind the conflict in Israel, the use of human shields by Hamas, Nobel prizes and Jewish heritage, exemption and privileges of certain groups in Israel, reforming science education in New Zealand, and the atmosphere of censorship in American universities.

Jerry Coyne, an evolutionary biologist and geneticist, discusses the tension between evolution and the biblical origin story. Topics include natural selection, sexual selection, intelligent design in schools, attacks on evolutionary psychology, epigenetics, genetic evolution in humanity, birth rate differences, and gender dysphoria. They also explore unanswered questions in evolutionary biology.

Sam Harris interviews biologist Jerry Coyne about his new book, "Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible." If the Making Sense podcast logo in your player is BLACK, you can SUBSCRIBE to gain access to all full-length episodes at samharris.org/subscribe.