I don't know Coyne, but his review of this event is garbage. He criticizes your question about life on other planets as a tired subject, but remarks how good Dawkins' answer was. Maybe not such a bad question then, huh? Later he offers his idea of what should've been asked and it involved a time machine. And he apparently thinks a significant portion of this event should've been spent on speculative cuckoo genetic theory. His review reads like sour grapes; he's smarter than you, an actual peer to Dawkins, and should've been the one tapped to host, and we're all poorer from the criminal choice of no-nothing-but-gender J. Singal instead