Faith Versus Fact, Jerry A. Coyne
Faith Versus Fact, Jerry A. Coyne
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Faith Versus Fact
Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible

Author: Jerry A. Coyne

Narrator: Joe Barrett

Unabridged: 11 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/14/2015

Categories: Nonfiction, Religion, Science

Synopsis

In his provocative new book, evolutionary biologist Jerry A. Coyne lays out in clear, dispassionate detail why the toolkit of science, based on reason and empirical study, is reliable, while that of religion—including faith, dogma, and revelation—leads to incorrect, untestable, or conflicting conclusions.

Coyne is responding to a national climate in which over half of Americans don't believe in evolution (and congressmen deny global warming), and warns that religious prejudices and strictures in politics, education, medicine, and social policy are on the rise. Extending the bestselling works of Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens, he demolishes the claims of religion to provide verifiable "truth" by subjecting those claims to the same tests we use to establish truth in science.

Coyne irrefutably demonstrates the grave harm—to individuals and to our planet—in mistaking faith for fact in making the most important decisions about the world we live in.

About Jerry A. Coyne

Jerry A. Coyne is the New York Times author of numerous scientific articles and books, including Why Evolution is True and Speciation with H. Allen Orr. He is a professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Ecology and Evolution, where he specializes in evolutionary genetics. He is also a member of both the Committee on Genetics and the Committee on Evolutionary Biology. He has written over 115 refereed scientific papers and 130 other articles, book reviews, and columns. He is a frequent contributor to The New Republic, The Times Literary Supplement, the New York Times, among others. Jerry lives in Chicago.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dennis

It's already happening. Coyne's Faith vs Fact is being panned as biased, curmudgeonly, and ignorant. It is none of these. Neither is it an atheist book. It is a book about knowing - epistemology - and how we can confidently and reliably know what is real. Coyne argues that reason and the scientific m......more

Goodreads review by Diane

I was fortunate enough to win an advance copy of Jerry Coyne's upcoming book, "Faith vs. Fact, Why Science and Religion are Incompatible", from Goodreads. Jerry Coyne is a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago, the author of the book "Why Evolution is True......more

Goodreads review by Tanja

“Forty percent of U.S. adults ascribe to a strictly creationist view of human origins, believing that God created them in their present form within roughly the past 10,000 years. However, more Americans continue to think that humans evolved over millions of years -- either with God's guidance (33%)......more

Goodreads review by Kevin

“There is no harmony between religion and science. When science was a child, religion sought to strangle it in the cradle. Now that science has attained its youth, and superstition is in its dotage, the trembling, palsied wreck says to the athlete: “Let us be friends.”” -Robert Ingersoll If you’ve re......more

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