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→Poor record of scientific publishing compared to Francis Collins who he disparages: new section
article on PZ Myers and debate: http://www.examiner.com/messianic-jewish-in-national/will-pz-myers-debate-vox-day-and-on-the-question-evolution-campaign - incorporate into article [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 05:01, 12 October 2011 (EDT)
article on PZ Myers and debate: http://www.examiner.com/messianic-jewish-in-national/will-pz-myers-debate-vox-day-and-on-the-question-evolution-campaign - incorporate into article [[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 05:01, 12 October 2011 (EDT)
== Poor record of scientific publishing compared to Francis Collins who he disparages ==
Vox Day post:
"Coyne has accused Collins of being an “embarrassment to the NIH, to scientists, and, indeed, to all rational people” and an “advocate of profoundly anti-scientific beliefs.” Myers calls him a “creationist dupe arguing against scientific theories” and “an amiable lightweight” who doesn’t know how to think like a scientist.
Recall that Collins has published 384 scientific papers from 1971 to 2007. I’m sure he has published since 2007, as that is where the CV on the web ends. In fact, by searching through PubMed, a database that contains millions of scientific articles, it looks like he has published 483 papers. But we’ll stick with 384 since there could be other “Collins FS” authors out there mixed in with the PubMed search results.
Again using PubMed, I was able to determine that Jerry Coyne has published a very respectable 88 papers from 1971 to 2011. For Myers, I found only ten papers from 1984-1999. For Harris, I did not bother with PubMed. I used his own site where he promotes himself and his publications.
He has published two papers since 2009."[[http://voxday.blogspot.com/2012/04/christianity-is-more-scientific-than.html]
Vox Day:
"In other words, it's obviously not Christianity that hinders science. Collins has not only produced considerably more science than his critics, he has published more than twice as many papers as Richard Dawkins, Jerry Coyne, PZ Myers, and Sam Harris combined. He has published infinitely more scientific papers than the late Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, and Michael Shermer, all of whom have nevertheless made similarly false claims about the incompatibility of Christianity and science.
As is so often the case, the atheist argument is based entirely on incorrect logic and not on the empirical evidence that they claim - also falsely - to value so highly." [http://voxday.blogspot.com/2012/04/christianity-is-more-scientific-than.html][[User:Conservative|Conservative]] 11:51, 19 April 2012 (EDT)