As he moved through the program, Coyne was becoming well versed in the intellectual tools of his trade-genetics, evolutionary logic, research methods, and the like. It goes back to 1973, when he was a mere 24-year-old graduate student at Harvard. This, however, is a more personal story about Coyne.
Jerry is also an internationally famous defender of evolution against proponents of creationism and intelligent design. His research on population and evolutionary genetics has been widely published in professional and trade journals and his 2009 book, Why Evolution Is True, established him as a leading force in the study of evolution. That way, he'll no longer be a wannabe but a get-to-be.Jerry Coyne is an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago. My hope is that Rittenhouse doesn't cash in on his new-found fame, but instead pursues an education and picks a career of service. If he was truly in fear of his life, his reward is still being alive. Killing two people and wounding another, perhaps in self-defense, doesn't merit an award. Another congressman said he might offer Kyle an internship. Some members of Congress have recommended him for a Congressional Gold Medal.
Rittenhouse is a working-class kid who worked after school as a fry cook and a janitor. Teenage boys sometimes do really stupid things. I'm sorry, Trevor, you are thinking like an adult. A used car lot in Kenosha isn't so valuable that it warrants the taking of a life.Ĭomedian and social commentator Trevor Noah said, "Nobody drives into a city with guns because they love someone else's business that much." I wish someone had sat Kyle Rittenhouse down and told him the same thing. That is the difference between the reasoning of a teenage boy and an adult. If I saw a theft in progress, they said to make sure I was safe in the house and to call the sheriff. There is no tank of gas or power drill so valuable to warrant the taking of a human life. So, in my teenage enthusiasm, I told my parents if I saw a thief, I would take my. The next day, the sheriff was praising the farmer on the front page of the Galesburg Register Mail. Growing up on a farm, we found that occasionally thieves would take advantage of the remoteness of our location and that of our neighbors and steal gasoline or tools late at night.Ī farmer we knew pointed a rifle at someone stealing his tools and held him at bay until a deputy sheriff arrived. That lesson was taught to me by my parents.
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