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In his provocative new 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 over half of Americans don't 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 harm--to individuals and to our planet--in mistaking faith for fact in making the most important decisions about the world we live in.

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"[T]his is an important book that deserves an open-minded readership.-- ""Kirkus"""

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Jerry A. Coyne is the New York Times author of numerous scientific articles and books, including Why Evolution is True and Speciation with H. Allen Orr. He is a professor at the University of Chicago in the Department of Ecology and Evolution, where he specializes in evolutionary genetics. He is also a member of both the Committee on Genetics and the Committee on Evolutionary Biology. He has written over 115 refereed scientific papers and 130 other articles, book reviews, and columns. He is a frequent contributor to The New Republic, The Times Literary Supplement, the New York Times, among others. Jerry lives in Chicago. Joe Barrett, an actor and Audie Award and Earphones Award-winning narrator, has appeared both on and off Broadway as well as in hundreds of radio and television commercials.

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