
The band’s logo is a cross with a red slash through it, known as “the cross-buster.”Īt the same time, the 46-year-old husband and father said, the band has a tremendous following of religious people. The band uses religion and religious symbols as metaphors for what’s wrong with society, Graffin said. “Religion is an easy target,” Graffin said during an interview with The Post squeezed in between his flight here, the 6 p.m. The book, co-written by Steve Olson, is also about Graffin’s dislike of authority, dogma and fundamentalism, religious or otherwise. Not surprisingly then, Graffin’s new book, “Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science and Bad Religion in a World Without God,” is, as the publisher puts it, “part rock memoir and part scientific manifesto.” He has a doctorate in zoology from Cornell University.

Not many professors sign copies of their new book about evolution at Denver’s Tattered Cover Book Store before heading out to the Fillmore Auditorium on a Friday night to front a band that is a punk-rock legend.īut Greg Graffin is lead singer and songwriter for Bad Religion and a lecturer in life science and paleontology at UCLA. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu
