num_pages: 336
description: 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 religionincluding faith dogma and revelationleads to incorrect untestable or conflicting conclusions. Coyne is responding to a national climate in which over half of Americans dont 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 harmto individuals and to our planetin mistaking faith for fact in making the most important decisions about the world we live in.
language: English
title: Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible
publisher: Viking