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Carregando... Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatiblede Jerry A. Coyne
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. The author, a prominent biologist and atheist, explains why faith and science are incompatible. He discusses why accomodationism doesn't work and bluntly discusses the case against faith. He believes religion is actually bad for science, and that religious scientists suffer much cognitive dissonance. He writes with lucid prose, without a lot of jargon that could leave a non-biologist or non-atheist behind. He makes his case against acccomodationism, but overall, he could have been stronger in the case. Recommended. ( ) I am afraid, Author has not done his homework in this area. Most of the content is popular journalism. Eg: Global Warming Denial i.e this relates to Political discourse. Eg: Most Historians of Science reject, Draper's conflict thesis. Why would a Harvard Professor do sloppy work? In addition to this, it's inaccurate Natural Philosophy i.e contemporary name, "Science", has become specialized. I'd say, the author misses, Big Picture. If this is the first book you read on this topic, I'm sure you might not have any other content, writings to compare. I'd not recommend this work, as it is inaccurate. Please, Check my review on another work: Science and Religion, by Alister E. McGrath The following would be written by researchers who are interested in the field, and have taken herculean effort. Finally, I'd suggest more accurate work. This is accurate writing from Special Divine Action Project. Please Check, Religion and Science, Special Divine Action Project by Oxford University Deus Vult, Gottfried Jerry A. Coyne is an emeritus professor of biology at the University of Chicago. He is also a fairly militant atheist. His latest book, Faith vs. Fact, argues that religion and science are completely incompatible. In so doing, he attempts to refute Stephen Jay Gould’s theory that religion and science were “non-overlapping magisteria.” In the beginning of his book, I wasn't sure if Coyne would make his case, but he did, and in spades. I doubt he'll change many minds (he examines the incredulous ability for people to cling to faith when presented with incontrovertible evidence disproving one thing or another), but he collects in this book a nice set of tools for the next discussion. Overall, excellent point and counter point, addressing most of the common, and many of the more creative, accommodationist objections to incompatibility. One particular part resonated...Coyne's deconstruction of Stephen Jay Gould's non-overlapping magisteria. I used to think Gould was on to something, but I came to the conclusion that he really missed the point. While religion's domain of teaching authority certainly should never presume to intrude on science, science can, and will, be able to determine all things eventually - for a nontestable claim is nothing more than imagination. I like James Morrow's quote in his novel Only Begotten Daughter: “Science does have all the answers...The problem is that we don’t have all the science.” Someday, we'll have more science. Not all, but more. And we'll be able to explain more of religion than religion can ever hope to explain about science. Recommended, and worth a second read.
Coyne has examined every talking point in the New Atheism debate but one: the allegedly shrill, militant, extremist, fundamentalist tone of the anti-God squad. Here he leads by example. Faith Versus Fact is unquestionably partisan, but its tone is matter-of-fact, and the offense that its targets will surely take will come from the force of his arguments rather than any ridicule or cheap shots. Indeed, my only real criticism of the book is that it has been stripped of the sass and wit that enliven his blog whyevolutionistrue. Nonetheless, Faith Versus Fact is clear and gripping, and should be read by anyone interested in the tension between science and religion. By meeting the claims of the faitheists and accommodationists head-on, Coyne shows that in this debate the two sides aren’t preaching to their choirs or talking past each other, and that the truth does not always fall halfway between two extremes. In calm, levelheaded prose, Coyne refutes the “accommodationist” position that science and faith belong to “two non-overlapping magisteria”—a theory coined by his late colleague Stephen Jay Gould that espouses that science concerns itself with establishing facts about the physical universe, while religion is interested in spiritual matters, and the two therefore cannot be in conflict. Reconciling the two is impossible, he writes, because religion’s “combination of certainty, morality, and universal punishment is toxic,” while science, in contrast, acknowledges the fact that it might err, arriving at truths that are “provisional and evidence-based,” but at least testable. Unlike religion, science self-corrects, points out its errors, and tries again. Although he makes a clear and cogent argument, he may find that, once again, he is preaching to his own choir. Coyne defines science “as a collection of methods” yielding knowledge that can be rejected or confirmed through testing. Religion derives its authority from belief in “a god, gods, or similar superhuman power.” Coyne focuses on religions “that make empirical claims about the existence of a deity, the nature of that deity, and how it interacts with the world,” in particular Judaism, Islam, and especially Christianity. ... Deeply religious readers may not even pick it up, but this is an important book that deserves an open-minded readership.
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