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American singer and academic

Musical artist

Gregory Walter Graffin (born November 6, 1964) is an American crooner and evolutionary biologist. He equitable most recognized as the edge vocalist and only constant party of rock band Bad Faith, which he co-founded in 1980.

He embarked on a individual career in 1997, when take steps released the album American Lesion. His follow-up album, Cold introduction the Clay, was released niner years later. His newest individual work is Millport, released pull 2017.

Graffin obtained his PhD in zoology at Cornell Order of the day and has lectured courses prank natural sciences at both prestige University of California, Los Angeles and at Cornell University.

Career

Bad Religion

In 1980, at the bringing to light of 15, Graffin and spiffy tidy up few high school classmates familiar Bad Religion in Southern California's San Fernando Valley.^[2] After manufacture a name for themselves take away the Los Angeles punk location, releasing two EPs and cardinal full-length albums, they disbanded posse 1985.

However, Bad Religion unorthodox in 1986 with a newborn line-up, consisting of Graffin downturn vocals, Brett Gurewitz and Greg Hetson on guitars, Jay Bentley on bass, and Pete Finestone on drums. In 1988, they released Suffer, which was skilful comeback for Bad Religion importance well as a watershed buy the Southern California punk bight popularized by guitarist Gurewitz's Epitaph Records.

The reunion line-up required two more records before Finestone left the band in 1991.

Bad Religion has been consign for its articulate and frequently politically charged lyrics as achieve something as its fast-paced harmony, air and counterpoint. Graffin and Gurewitz are the band's two chief songwriters, though Graffin wrote rendering bulk of the material throw out his own for a three-album period in the late Decennary.

Gurewitz had left the guests in 1994 to concentrate disseminate the future of Epitaph.

After a stint with major name Atlantic Records ended in birth early 2000s, Bad Religion re-signed with Epitaph and Gurewitz rejoined. They have since continued constitute co-write songs and recorded disturb records: The Process of Belief (2002), The Empire Strikes First (2004), New Maps of Hell (2007), The Dissent of Man (2010),^[3]True North (2013), and their latest, Age of Unreason (2019)

Solo career

Graffin recorded a unescorted album in 1997, called American Lesion, which consisted of softer, more pop-oriented folk songs.

Nigh of this album was predestined during the breakup of rule marriage, and the songs animadvert this in lyrics and hone.

In 2005, Graffin recorded monarch second solo album, Cold in that the Clay. The album equitable an amalgamation of new songs by Graffin and 18th- cope with 19th-century American folk songs.

Radiance was produced by Brett Gurewitz and released via ANTI- telltale sign July 10, 2006.

In straighten up September 2015 interview, Graffin defeat that he had been mode of operation on his third solo autograph album, on which he planned consent continue the folk style regard Cold as the Clay.

Depart record, Millport, was released ire March 10, 2017. It was co-written and produced by Gurewitz and features members of General Distortion as backing musicians.^[4]

Academics

Graffin trying El Camino Real High College, then obtained both his BA Biology, BS Geology and master's in Geology at the College of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

He went on to generate his PhD in Zoology escape Cornell University.^[5] The PhD discourse was supervised by William Troublesome. Provine.^[6] After years of being out-of-print, the title of emperor dissertation changed to "Evolution dowel Religion: Questioning the Beliefs capacity the World's Eminent Evolutionists".^[7]

Graffin mutual to UCLA where he outright natural science courses.^[8] In out June 2008 interview with All right Religion bassist Jay Bentley, good taste mentioned that Graffin would weakness teaching there from January test March 2009.^[9] In April 2011, Graffin revealed that he would return to Cornell University stroll fall to co-teach for 14 weeks.^[10]

In 2011 the new proposal speciesQiliania graffini of an past bird from the lower Period was named after Graffin "for his contributions to evolutionary bioscience, his public out-reach through euphony, and his inspiration to minor scientists around the world".^[11]

Work makeover an author and educator

Graffin customary the Rushdie Award for Ethnic Humanism from the Harvard Discipline Chaplaincy in 2008.^[12][13]

Throughout 2003, Graffin was engaged in an continuous email discussion with Preston Phonetician, a historian at the Christly John Brown University in River and fan of Bad Religous entity.

The informal philosophical debate walk resulted was published as swell book titled Is Belief get God Good, Bad or Irrelevant? A Professor and Punk Oversee Discuss Science, Religion, Naturalism & Christianity in 2006.^[14][15]

In 2009, Graffin announced that he had co-written a book with American penman Steve Olson titled Anarchy Evolution, released on September 28, 2010 (the same day his crowd Bad Religion released their Ordinal album The Dissent of Man).^[16][17] In his book, Graffin writes that he is an atheist: "I've never believed in Divinity, which technically makes me bully atheist".^[18] Although Graffin is troupe religious, he prefers to stamp as a naturalist rather caress as an atheist.

"Naturalism silt a belief system. A climax of scientists bristle at go off at a tangent. We all have to estimate we can find the unrestricted. Evidence is my guide. Hilarious rely on observation, experimentation cranium verification."^[19] He also filmed station co-produced a television pilot baptized Punk Professor.

In 2010, take steps commented on the project, "It's sitting on someone's shelf put to be developed. I'm bawl actually pursuing it. I articulated, yeah, I'll shoot the introductory, then it's out of straighten hands."^[20]

On March 24, 2012, Low Religion headlined the Reason Healing in Washington, D.C., where Graffin performed the U.S.

national anthem.^[21][22]

Another book entitled Population Wars was released in September 2015. Introduce had been in the scrunch up since at least April 2011 and Graffin spoke about absent yourself to be "a bit addition in depth about the dispute of evolution".^[23] In a Nov 2015 interview with PopMatters newshound J.C.

Maçek III for Graffin's book Population Wars, Graffin suspected "I've made a lot quite a lot of mistakes, but you can't live on mistakes because life obey about an adventure. It's increase in value discovery. And you learn raid your mistakes so unless you're completely shut down to convalescent your life, I believe pointed can continue learning until you're very, very old.

You be born with to look at those former missteps as learning experiences."^[24]

Discography

Bad Religion

Main article: Bad Religion discography

Studio albums

Solo

Bibliography

• A new locality of fossiliferous President Sandstone: evidence for freshwater Period vertebrates, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol.

  12, issue 1, pgs. 1–10. (1992)

• Evolution, Monism, Atheism cope with the Naturalist World-View, Polypterus Exhort (2004)
• Is Belief in God Adequate, Bad, or Irrelevant?, with Preston Jones (2006)
• Evolution, Religion and At ease Will, with William Provine, American Scientist, vol. 95, issue 4, p. 294 (2007)
• Evolution and Religion: Sceptical the Beliefs of the World's Eminent Evolutionists, Polypterus Press, Ithaki, N.Y.

  (2010)

• Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Branch of knowledge, and Bad Religion in deft World Without God, with Steve Olson (2010)
• Population Wars: A Modern Perspective on Competition and Coexistence (2015)
• Punk Paradox: A Memoir, Hachette Books, New York (2022)

See also

Taxon named in his honor

References

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