http://inference-review.com/article/good-for-nothing
EXCERPT . . . An evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago and the author of a bestselling popular book, "Why Evolution Is True," [Jerry] Coyne was appalled by recent religiously-based efforts, harking back to the famous 1925 Scopes trial, to modify or “balance” science teaching in American public schools. [...] With "Faith Versus Fact," he has launched a frontal assault on theistic religion, accompanied by a ringing vindication of the spirit and method of the natural sciences.
Coyne is a little late to the fray, and he lacks Dawkins’s gift for storytelling, Dennett’s philosophical exuberance, Christopher Hitchens’s panache, and Sam Harris’s instinct for the jugular, so he will probably not be acclaimed as the Fifth Horseman of the New Atheism. But "Faith Versus Fact" is a solid, earnest, persuasive book. Coyne has replied to most criticisms of Darwinian theory in "Why Evolution Is True," but at least a few of the most frequent ones should be touched on here, if only to help account for his combativeness in the present book....
EXCERPT . . . An evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago and the author of a bestselling popular book, "Why Evolution Is True," [Jerry] Coyne was appalled by recent religiously-based efforts, harking back to the famous 1925 Scopes trial, to modify or “balance” science teaching in American public schools. [...] With "Faith Versus Fact," he has launched a frontal assault on theistic religion, accompanied by a ringing vindication of the spirit and method of the natural sciences.
Coyne is a little late to the fray, and he lacks Dawkins’s gift for storytelling, Dennett’s philosophical exuberance, Christopher Hitchens’s panache, and Sam Harris’s instinct for the jugular, so he will probably not be acclaimed as the Fifth Horseman of the New Atheism. But "Faith Versus Fact" is a solid, earnest, persuasive book. Coyne has replied to most criticisms of Darwinian theory in "Why Evolution Is True," but at least a few of the most frequent ones should be touched on here, if only to help account for his combativeness in the present book....