Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible
-A superbly argued book.- --Richard Dawkins, author of The God DelusionThe New York Times bestselling author of Why Evolution is True explains why any attempt to make religion compatible with science…
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-A superbly argued book.- --Richard Dawkins, author of The God DelusionThe New York Times bestselling author of Why Evolution is True explains why any attempt to make religion compatible with science is doomed to failIn this provocative 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 more than half of Americans don't believe in evolution, members of Congress deny global warming, and long-conquered childhood diseases are reappearing because of religious objections to inoculation, and he warns that religious prejudices in politics,