Faith Versus Fact

Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible
AuthorJerry Coyne
PublisherViking Press
Publication date
2015
Pages311
ISBN978-0-670-02653-1

Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible is a 2015 book by the biologist Jerry Coyne concerning the relationship between science and religion. Coyne argues that religion and science are incompatible, by surveying the history of science and stating that both religion and science make claims about the universe, yet only science is open to the fact that it may be wrong.[1]

Coyne was astonished that after having published his book Why Evolution is True that the proportion of creationists in the United States still remained between 40 and 46 percent. He felt that faith was the reason that kept them from accepting the facts and evidence for evolution.[2]

  1. ^ Tayler, Jeffrey (4 July 2015). "Can Religion and Science Coexist?". TheAtlantic.Com. The Atlantic. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
  2. ^ "Faith Versus Fact". www.kirkusreviews.com. Viking. Retrieved 28 February 2017.