Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible

Coyne, Jerry A.

ISBN 10: 0670026530 / ISBN 13: 9780670026531

Published by Viking, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible
• Publisher: Viking
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670026530
• ISBN 13: 9780670026531
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 6.38W x 9.31H x 1.06D inches 6.38 inches width by 9.31 inches height by 1.06 inches depth
• Weight: 1.151 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • Reference
  • Religion
  • Science

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Synopsis

The New York Times bestselling author explains why any attempt to make religion compatible with science is doomed to fail.
 
What we read in the news today is full of subjectivity, half-truths, and blatant falsehoods; and thus it is more necessary now than ever to safeguard the truth with facts. In his provocative new book, evolutionary biologist Jerry A. Coyne aims to do exactly that in the arena of religion. In clear, dispassionate detail he explains 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 the Author

Jerry A. Coyne is professor emeritus at the University of Chicago in the Department of Ecology and Evolution, where he specialized in evolutionary genetics. His New York Times bestseller, Why Evolution Is True, was one of Newsweek’s “50 Books for Our Times” in 2010.