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A review by kevin_shepherd
Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible by Jerry A. Coyne
4.0
“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 read Why Evolution Is True then you are already familiar with Jerry Coyne’s phenomenal no-nonsense critique. This is more of the same.
Coyne is analytical, meticulous and thorough. He assumes a certain level of sophistication in his readership, never dumbing-down his analysis even when he is knee deep in philosophical exposition. As such, Faith Verses Fact dismantles religious literalism in a manner that will be incomprehensible (and thus easily dismissible) to anyone who is logically-challenged and/or scientifically-disinclined.
“Religious faith is, precisely because we are still-evolving creatures, ineradicable. It will never die out, or at least not until we get over our fear of death, and of the dark, and of the unknown, and of each other.” -Christopher Hitchens
If you’ve read Why Evolution Is True then you are already familiar with Jerry Coyne’s phenomenal no-nonsense critique. This is more of the same.
Coyne is analytical, meticulous and thorough. He assumes a certain level of sophistication in his readership, never dumbing-down his analysis even when he is knee deep in philosophical exposition. As such, Faith Verses Fact dismantles religious literalism in a manner that will be incomprehensible (and thus easily dismissible) to anyone who is logically-challenged and/or scientifically-disinclined.
“Religious faith is, precisely because we are still-evolving creatures, ineradicable. It will never die out, or at least not until we get over our fear of death, and of the dark, and of the unknown, and of each other.” -Christopher Hitchens