Faith Versus Fact

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We are living today in a genuinely frightening scenario religion and science are engaged in a kind of war a war for understanding, a war about whether we should have good reasons for what we accept as true The sheer fact that over half of Americans don t believe in evolution to say nothing of the number of Congressmen who don t believe in climate change and the resurgence of religious prejudices and strictures as factors in politics, education, medicine, and social policy make the need for this book urgent.Religion and science compete in many ways to describe reality they both make existence claims about what is real but they use different tools to meet this goal In his elegant, provocative, and direct argument, leading evolutionary biologist and bestselling author Jerry Coyne lays out in clear, patient, dispassionate details why the toolkit of science, based on reason and empirical study, is reliable, while that of religion including faith, dogma and revelation is unreliable and leads to incorrect, untestable, or conflicting conclusions Indeed, by relying on faith, religion renders itself incapable of finding truth. Best Read [ Faith Versus Fact ] Author [ Jerry A. Coyne ] – kino-fada.fr 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 , and blogs copiously at his wordpress blog, likewise named Why Evolution is True.Spoiler Fact wins Although, if you are familiar with Coyne s writing at all, that s not really a spoiler Regul 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 , and blogs copiously at his wordpress blog, likewise named Why Evolution is True.Spoiler Fact wins Although, if you are familiar with Coyne s w...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 method are the only methods we have to investi...There was a time when religious explanations of the world abounded illness, weather, births, death, earthquakes, celestial events andwere attributed to a god or gods the vestiges of some of these superstitions are still with us, such as when we say bless you in response to a sneeze to ward off evil spirits Over time science has provided much better explanations of these natural phenomena and today religion s explanatory power is increasingly relegated to god of the gaps issues at There was a time when religious explanations of the world abounded illness, weather, births, ...,, , ,, , , Faith Versus Fact Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible by Jerry A Coyne Faith Versus Fact is an excellent book that presents the persuasive argument that while faith and science compete to describe reality science is the best tool to find out what is true about our universe Evolutionary geneticist Jerry A Coyne follows up his masterpiece of Why Evolution Is True, with an outstanding book of its own that clearly separates science from religion This persuasive 336 page book includes th Faith Versus Fact Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible by Jerry A Coyne Faith Versus Fact is an excell...I received this book by winning a Goodreads giveaway Jerry Coyne has a thesis Science and Religion are incompatible Now the real question is this Does he show this Well, no I don t believe so This book is simply aimed at people who already accept the same conclusion as Coyne Jerry Coyne does not approach this topic objectively or neutral He is a New Atheis...In the preface Coyne states his thesis clearly My thesis is that religion and science compete in many ways to describe reality they both make existence claims about what is real but use different tools to meet this goal And I argue that the toolkit of science, based on reason and empirical study, is reliable, while that of religion including faith, dogma, and revelation is unreliable and leads to incorrect, untestable, or conflicting conclusions Indeed, by relying on faith rather than evide In the preface Coyne states his thesis clearly My thesis is that religion and science compete in many ways to describe reality they both make existence claims about what is real but use different tools to meet this goal And I argue that the toolkit of science, based on reason and empirical study, is reliable, while that of religion including faith, dogma, and revelation is unreliable and leads to incorrect, untestable, or conflicting conclusions Indeed, by relying on faith rather than evidence, religion renders itself incapable of finding truth p xi xiiCoyne deserves credit for making his intention so transp...I m not sure where even to start in my review of the book, mainly because all thoughts and opinions are highly variable based on emotion and experience So, I ll start there If I was anything going into this book, I was an accommodationist I attended a conservative religious university that required statements of faith from its professors, but have never felt that my education there was lacking scientifically my majors minor were Psychology, Environmental Studies, and Religion I was fortuna I m not sure where even to start in my review of the book, mainly because all thoughts and opinions are highly variable based on emotion and experience So, I ll start there If I was anything going into this book, I was an accommodationist I attended a conservative religious university that required statements of faith from its professors, but have never felt that my education there was lacking scientifically my majors minor were Psychology, Environmental Studies, and Religion I was fortunate enough to attend a seminar class my Freshman year that was entitled Conversations in Neurosc...Scienza e religione sono compatibili Molti, credenti e atei, teologi e scienziati, laici e religiosi ritengono di s Il fatto che la scienza non sia in contrasto con la religione spesso dato quasi per scontato, anche se ci sono posizioni diverse su quale sia il loro rapporto da chi ritiene che scienza e religione si occupino di ambiti del tutto diversi e separati, i cosiddetti magisteri non sovrapposti di cui parlava Stephen J Gould, che per definizione non possono essere in contrasto, a Scienza e religione sono compatibili Molti, credenti e atei, teologi e scienziati, laici e religi...Weird science to feed the confirmation bias of the believers in none.The first page is excellent But that is the quotations page Than there are a few pages about compatibility between faith and research But to make itappealing, the author calls it science just to blur the limitsWhatever Than I was lost in a sea of polls Polls can be twisted Polls are impersonal People hide information from the pollsters for many different reasons and although on paper 300 to 6000 people mig Weird science to feed the confirmation bias of the believers in none.The first page is excellent But that is the quotations page Than there are a few pages about compatibility between faith and research But to make itappealing, the author calls it science just to blur the limitsWhatever Than I was lost in a sea of polls Polls can be twisted Polls are impersonal People hide information from the pollsters for many different reasons and although on paper 300 to 6000 people might look representative for 600 000 000, there are many ways to screw it both knowing and unknowingly Bottom line, the whole reasoning is rotten Sure, the scientists are non believer...

Faith Versus Fact
  • English
  • 03 November 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 336 pages
  • 0670026530
  • Jerry A. Coyne
  • Faith Versus Fact