Victor Stenger’s new book,God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science

[little_monkey]

The reader is treated to the history of the conflict between science and religion where Stenger argues there is a fundamental conflict between the two. “Science” he writes, “has earned our trust by its proven success. Religion has destroyed our trust by its repeated failures. Using the empirical method, science has eliminated smallpox, flown men to the moon, and discovered DNA. If science did not work, we wouldn’t do it. Relying on faith, religion has brought us inquisitions, holy wars, and intolerance. Religion does not work, but we still do it.” (p. 15)

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[popeyespappy]

Thanks LM. I may have to pick a copy of this up. I like Stenger’s arguments against a fine tuned universe. He has received some criticism of his work in the past, but as far as I can tell nothing that shows his arguments to be invalid. I may have to pick a copy of this up.

[Minimalist]

The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk.
-- H L Mencken


The day will come when we have generations of scientists who were not bogged down with holy horseshit by well-meaning but ignorant theist parents. Then, as Mencken suggests, will we see the end of this nonsense of trying to reconcile two unalterably opposed forces.

[Justtristo]

I will certainly buy a copy when it comes out for the Kindle.