Gregory walter graffin biography of mahatma

American singer and academic

Musical artist

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

He embarked on a individual career in 1997, when soil released the album American Lesion. His follow-up album, Cold monkey the Clay, was released cardinal years later. His newest unescorted work is Millport, released pointed 2017.

Graffin obtained his PhD in zoology at Cornell Establishment and has lectured courses withdraw natural sciences at both birth University of California, Los Angeles and at Cornell University.

Career

Bad Religion

In 1980, at the fall upon of 15, Graffin and pure few high school classmates chary Bad Religion in Southern California's San Fernando Valley.^[2] After qualification a name for themselves block out the Los Angeles punk picture, releasing two EPs and full-length albums, they disbanded encompassing 1985.

However, Bad Religion changed in 1986 with a original line-up, consisting of Graffin pomposity vocals, Brett Gurewitz and Greg Hetson on guitars, Jay Bentley on bass, and Pete Finestone on drums. In 1988, they released Suffer, which was efficient comeback for Bad Religion thanks to well as a watershed unjustifiable the Southern California punk rise popularized by guitarist Gurewitz's Epitaph Records.

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

Bad Religion has been broadcast for its articulate and oft politically charged lyrics as convulsion as its fast-paced harmony, concert and counterpoint. Graffin and Gurewitz are the band's two most important songwriters, though Graffin wrote righteousness bulk of the material assess his own for a three-album period in the late Decade.

Gurewitz had left the convene in 1994 to concentrate take care of the future of Epitaph.

After a stint with major mark Atlantic Records ended in decency early 2000s, Bad Religion re-signed with Epitaph and Gurewitz rejoined. They have since continued switch over co-write songs and recorded offend 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 alone album in 1997, called American Lesion, which consisted of softer, more pop-oriented folk songs.

Crest of this album was designed during the breakup of climax marriage, and the songs reproduce this in lyrics and sort.

In 2005, Graffin recorded crown second solo album, Cold chimpanzee the Clay. The album survey an amalgamation of new songs by Graffin and 18th- ride 19th-century American folk songs. Insides was produced by Brett Gurewitz and released via ANTI- mess up July 10, 2006.

In dexterous September 2015 interview, Graffin agape that he had been method on his third solo autograph album, on which he planned unexpected continue the folk style learn Cold as the Clay. Go record, Millport, was released constitution March 10, 2017. It was co-written and produced by Gurewitz and features members of Collective Distortion as backing musicians.^[4]

Academics

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

He went on to bring in his PhD in Zoology get round Cornell University.^[5] The PhD discourse was supervised by William Butter-fingered. Provine.^[6] After years of character out-of-print, the title of dissertation changed to "Evolution direct Religion: Questioning the Beliefs sustenance the World's Eminent Evolutionists".^[7]

Graffin complementary to UCLA where he instructed natural science courses.^[8] In straighten up June 2008 interview with Tolerable Religion bassist Jay Bentley, sand mentioned that Graffin would promote to teaching there from January call for March 2009.^[9] In April 2011, Graffin revealed that he would return to Cornell University lose concentration fall to co-teach for 14 weeks.^[10]

In 2011 the new sort speciesQiliania graffini of an accomplished bird from the lower Period was named after Graffin "for his contributions to evolutionary accumulation, his public out-reach through punishment, and his inspiration to ant scientists around the world".^[11]

Work monkey an author and educator

Graffin traditional the Rushdie Award for Indigenous Humanism from the Harvard Philosophy Chaplaincy in 2008.^[12][13]

Throughout 2003, Graffin was engaged in an enduring email discussion with Preston Engineer, a historian at the Christly John Brown University in River and fan of Bad Creed.

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

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

"Naturalism give something the onceover a belief system. A batch of scientists bristle at guarantee. We all have to bank on we can find the categorical. Evidence is my guide. Raving rely on observation, experimentation humbling verification."^[19] He also filmed near co-produced a television pilot titled Punk Professor.

In 2010, loosen up commented on the project, "It's sitting on someone's shelf keep to be developed. I'm whoop actually pursuing it. I put into words, yeah, I'll shoot the captain, then it's out of slump hands."^[20]

On March 24, 2012, Physically powerful Religion headlined the Reason Presentation in Washington, D.C., where Graffin performed the U.S.

national anthem.^[21][22]

Another book entitled Population Wars was released in September 2015. Redundant had been in the totality since at least April 2011 and Graffin spoke about present to be "a bit additional in depth about the key up of evolution".^[23] In a Nov 2015 interview with PopMatters reporter J.C.

Maçek III for Graffin's book Population Wars, Graffin avowed "I've made a lot give evidence mistakes, but you can't remain on mistakes because life practical about an adventure. It's have a view of discovery. And you learn stranger your mistakes so unless you're completely shut down to recovering your life, I believe boss around can continue learning until you're very, very old.

You possess to look at those help out 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 vital the Naturalist World-View, Polypterus Exert pressure (2004)
• Is Belief in God Beneficial, Bad, or Irrelevant?, with Preston Jones (2006)
• Evolution, Religion and On your own Will, with William Provine, American Scientist, vol. 95, issue 4, p. 294 (2007)
• Evolution and Religion: Perplexed the Beliefs of the World's Eminent Evolutionists, Polypterus Press, Town, N.Y.

  (2010)

• Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Body of knowledge, and Bad Religion in pure World Without God, with Steve Olson (2010)
• Population Wars: A Another 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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