We now come to Part 7 of my analysis of Jerry Coyne’s book, Faith vs. Fact, where I will begin to discuss his comments in Chapter 3: “Why Accommodationism Fails.” A Very Brief Overview of the ChapterChapter 3 is roughly 50 pages long, but when it gets right down to it, providing an overview of…
We now come to Part 6 of my analysis of Jerry Coyne’s book, Faith vs. Fact, where I will attempt to finish up my comments on chapter 2 of his book. Christianity, Scientology and Mormonism: Religious ConflationAnother characteristic of Coyne’s analysis is his failure to distinguish between different religions and cults. To be sure, the…
We now come to Part 5 of my analysis of Jerry Coyne’s book, Faith vs. Fact. In this post I will conclude my thoughts on Coyne’s second chapter, entitled, “What’s Incompatible?” In this post, I want to comment on (1) Coyne’s take on the early Church Fathers, (2) his failure to distinguish between various religions…
We now come to chapter 2 of Jerry Coyne’s book, Faith vs. Fact. The chapter is entitled, “What’s Incompatible?” And, to get right to the point, here is what Coyne’s answer to that question is: Methods. He writes: “My claim is this: science and religion are incompatible because they have different methods for getting knowledge…
We now come to Part 3 of my book analysis of Jerry Coyne’s Faith vs. Fact. In my previous post, I gave a general overview of chapter 1 and then discussed Coyne’s referencing of Galileo and the Scopes Monkey Trial as examples that “religion” (i.e. Christianity) has always been antagonistic toward science. A basic knowledge…
As we now start getting into the details of Jerry Coyne’s book Faith vs. Fact, I am going to try to cover each chapter in the same manner. I am going to first provide a brief synopsis/overview of the main points or topics Coyne covers in that particular chapter, and then I will proceed to…
NOTE: Ten years ago I did this book analysis on “The God Delusion” on my old blog. Then four years ago I revised it and put it up on this blog, resurrecting orthodoxy. Somehow in the process, I failed to put up Part 11–Only today, a good 4 years later did someone notice! And so,…
It was about ten years ago that I decided to read the “big three” writers of the New Atheist Movement: Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion, Sam Harris’ The End of Faith, and Christopher Hitchens’ god is not Great. I was teaching Worldview at a small Christian high school at that time, and I felt it…
A couple of days ago, I wrote a response to Wayne Rossiter’s critique to Part 4 of my series in which I addressed Ken Ham’s attempt to address the Theodicy question (i.e. How can one reconcile the idea of a good and loving God with the reality of suffering and death in this world?). In…
Truth be told, I cannot remember a time when someone ever wrote a critique to one of my blog posts on their blog. Well, that has now happened with Wayne Rossiter’s critique on his blog of my thoughts on suffering and death. Needless to say, a response to his critique is in order. Enjoy. A…