Does the article not note B-XVI's skepticism (at the least) over the curious notion that men are somehow "descended" from apes???
God said that He created Adam and Eve. God holds considerably higher authority than any scientist. Darwin was a failed (and resentful???) theology student as well as a knee-slappingly hilarious author of fables for the gullible among us.
In charity, we ought to consider that the view of Darwin and others that they are decsended from apes may actually be evidence that they are but they have no business maligning the ancestry of humans as though ours were theirs.
Fr. Coyne should find a new line of work: gardening, or carpentry or cooking or swinging through the treetops with a banana in one hand and a vine in the other or whatever. He is over his head on man's ancestry. When we need "science" to reveal religious truth, we will be sure to let the "scientists" know but they ought, in prudence, hold their breath waiting. If God's Word was good enough for real scientists like Louis Pasteur, then it ought to be good enough for the Darwinist pipsqueaks who never seem to produce work as valuable or practical as that of Pasteur.
aug: Well, then, get down on your knees and worship what you conceive to be "science" almighty. A mighty strange god to have before the one genuine God, but free will is free will. AND, when Darwin died, his personal attempts to deny the Truth, ummmm, ended.
Neither resentful (he enjoyed his time in Cambridge and maintained contacts there for many years) nor failed (he took a four year "ordinary" degree and passed his finals well in the top 10 percent, 10th on the list out of 178). He just never went on to take up orders in clergy as his scientific career took of, and he found himself loaded down with scientific work, in the wake of The Beagle voyage.
The rest of your sneering screed is about equally accurate.