Dear Dr. Coyne, I’ll do my best to get right to the point. Your reputation as one of the world’s foremost experts on speciation theory precedes you. You are a well respected scientist and educator. I am but a student of those fields in science necessary for any attempt to answer my existential questions. Although I’ve been called a teacher, my background is not in education. By profession, I’m an author, certainly not a scientist. My strong preference is for writing detective novels. However, in the spirit of full disclosure, I should divulge that my most recent book, published this past Easter Sunday, has the title Counterargument for God. I should probably also mention that your advocacy of naturalistic evolution is one of the arguments that I endeavored to counter and defeat in my book. I meant no disrespect. It just happens that I have very good reasons for believing that you're wrong to assume that supernatural intelligence played no role in your existence or mine. Now, I’ve read Why Evolution is True, but I cheerfully admit that I don’t yet quite understand the biological processes allegedly at work. I still have a few questions about your specific field of expertise, if you’ll be good enough to answer them. Your USA Today article written not too long ago asserting that you can be good without God gives me some hope that you will cooperate, even though I suspect David Berlinski may have doubts. If I never ask my questions, you won't have the opportunity to respond if you so choose. True, you have expressed some disdain for creationists in … [Read more...]