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However, in 2013, Jerry Coyne spoke at an atheist meeting with the self-congratulatory title of "The Amazing Meeting".<ref>[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jerry_Coyne_at_The_Amazing_Meeting_2013-2.jpg Photograph of Jerry Coyne speaking at the atheist meeting entitled The Amazing Meeting]</ref> The Amazing Meeting is an annual meeting and perennial speakers at the Amazing Meeting include [[Penn Jillette|Penn]] & Teller, [[Michael Shermer]], [[James Randi]] and Phil Plait.  In addition, the website of All American Speakers, a buyers agent, has a form for requesting Jerry A. Coyne as a speaker.<ref>[http://www.allamericanspeakers.com/booking-request.php?SpName=Jerry-A.-Coyne Request Booking Info on Jerry A. Coyne - AllAmericanSpeakers.com]</ref> See also: [[Atheist hypocrisy]]

However, in 2013, Jerry Coyne spoke at an atheist meeting with the self-congratulatory title of "The Amazing Meeting".<ref>[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jerry_Coyne_at_The_Amazing_Meeting_2013-2.jpg Photograph of Jerry Coyne speaking at the atheist meeting entitled The Amazing Meeting]</ref> The Amazing Meeting is an annual meeting and perennial speakers at the Amazing Meeting include [[Penn Jillette|Penn]] & Teller, [[Michael Shermer]], [[James Randi]] and Phil Plait.  In addition, the website of All American Speakers, a buyers agent, has a form for requesting Jerry A. Coyne as a speaker.<ref>[http://www.allamericanspeakers.com/booking-request.php?SpName=Jerry-A.-Coyne Request Booking Info on Jerry A. Coyne - AllAmericanSpeakers.com]</ref> See also: [[Atheist hypocrisy]]

At the 2013 The Amazing Meeting, Coyne gave a talk entitled ''Faith is Not a Virtue'' which focused on the supposed incompatibility of science and religion, despite the fact that studies show that the irreligious engage in more superstitious thinking and the significant contributions that [[Christianity]] has made to science (see: [[Irreligion and superstition]] and [[Christianity and science]]).<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUJMzGrPX7M Faith is Not a Virtue - Jerry Coyne TAM 2013] - video</ref>  In addition, in his talk ''Faith is Not a Virtue'' Coyne also avoided the large body of historical and other social science data regarding the immoral actions of the atheist population (see: [[Moral failures of the atheist population]] and [[Atheism and Mass Murder|Atheism and mass murder]] and [[Atheism and morality]]). Furthermore, Coyne said in his talk that there being various sects of Christianity is evidence that Christianity is false (Despite the fact that there are many schools of atheist thought which frequently quarrel with each other  (see: [[Atheist factions]]) and that atheists/[[agnosticism|agnostics]] frequently argue about the [[definition of atheism]]).<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUJMzGrPX7M Faith is Not a Virtue - Jerry Coyne TAM 2013] - video</ref>

At the 2013 The Amazing Meeting, Coyne gave a talk entitled ''Faith is Not a Virtue'' which focused on the supposed incompatibility of science and religion, despite the fact that studies show that the irreligious engage in more superstitious thinking and the significant contributions that [[Christianity]] has made to science (see: [[Irreligion and superstition]] and [[Christianity and science]]).<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUJMzGrPX7M Faith is Not a Virtue - Jerry Coyne TAM 2013] - video</ref>  In addition, in his talk ''Faith is Not a Virtue'' Coyne also avoided the large body of historical and other social science data regarding the immoral actions of the atheist population (see: [[Atheist population and immorality]] and [[Atheism and Mass Murder|Atheism and mass murder]] and [[Atheism and morality]]). Furthermore, Coyne said in his talk that there being various sects of Christianity is evidence that Christianity is false (Despite the fact that there are many schools of atheist thought which frequently quarrel with each other  (see: [[Atheist factions]]) and that atheists/[[agnosticism|agnostics]] frequently argue about the [[definition of atheism]]).<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUJMzGrPX7M Faith is Not a Virtue - Jerry Coyne TAM 2013] - video</ref>

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