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File Size: 1323 KB
Print Length: 312 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books (May 19, 2015)
Publication Date: May 19, 2015
Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B00O4RHN64
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I enjoyed this book very much. It’s thoughtful, insightful, logical & very well written. The only points of critique I'd like to offer are the following:1) On page 123-124, the author writes, “Perhaps there are some events, though they’re hard to imagine, when a divinely produced violation of nature’s laws is more likely than human error or deception. It would be a close-minded scientist who would say that miracles are impossible in principle.†I’m very disappointed that he would say something like that.2) On page 126, he writes, “evolutionary geneticists now know that the human population could never have been as small as only two individuals (referring to Adam & Eve)—much less the eight who rode out the flood on Noah’s Ark.†It seems to me the sentence should’ve been constructed in reverse, as in, “evolutionary geneticists now know that the human population could never have been as small as the eight who rode out the flood on Noah’s Ark —much less only two individuals.â€3) On page 153, “observing nature directly instead using revelation or scripture . . .†is missing “of†after “instead.â€4) On page 163, he writes, “if we inhabit the only universe there is, we simply got lucky. . . In other words, in the bridge game of cosmology, we drew a nearly perfect hand—at least for carbon-based humanoid life.†Richard Dawkins also talks of us humans as being “lucky.†I simply don’t see being brought to this world as luck. I don’t see what’s so good about it. Life is difficult and full of pain, suffering, and struggle. I don’t understand why these scientists keep characterizing us as being lucky. Then, on page 164, he writes, “Rather than assuming that the world was created for humans, the more reasonable hypothesis is that humans evolved to adapt to the world they confronted. Add to that the number of predators, diseases, and parasites that faced our ancestors, and still afflict us today, and you can reasonably conclude that God hasn’t given us an especially comfortable home. Indeed, it seems that evolution has enabled us to barely hang on in a world determined to kill us.†This quote just confirms my opinion above.5) On page 163, he writes, “about 1024 planets—a trillion trillion, or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 of them—in our observable universe.†The 1024 should instead be formatted or expressly stated as 10 to the power 24.6) On page 164, he writes, “our universe is almost completely inhospitable to any kind of life we know. Place a human at random somewhere in the universe, or even on a planet, and the chance that she’ll die within seconds is overwhelming.†Why would he choose to use the pronoun “she†in this sentence, instead of “he†or even “he/sheâ€? I think it’s in poor taste.7) On page 260, he writes, “. . . I feel that religion is not only incompatible with science, but a roadblock to scientific progress, I am not proposing a robotic world governed by science.†The comma after the word “progress†should be a period instead.
Like many baby boomers, I was raised in an environment in which religion, God, Jesus, and church were paramount, often typical in southern families like mine. As the author cites in his book, as a child I was urged, directed, inundated and 'brainwashed' with a basic set of beliefs and life view which made religion a fundamental element in my life. As I grew older and moved away from home, pursued (and completed) a college education, began a career in engineering, and got married and had children, more by rote routine than innate beliefs I continued as a 'churchgoer'. However, my acquisition of knowledge and critical thinking and my observations of the world with its multitude of differing religions, all claiming their own beliefs as superior to the exclusion of other beliefs, and the terrible history of wars, torture, suffering, and hate engendered by these religions made me pause and begin to think logically. If God had created the world and all that was in it, and man in his own image, and had positive plans for humankind, and that achievement of those beneficial outcomes (i.e. heaven) was heavily dependent on our belief in Him, then why had he never, in any tangible, broadly believable way ever given us a shred of evidence upon which to base our belief? I experienced an epiphany; having never seen, experienced, or heard of a well-documented, well-corroborated event that provided evidence of a God, then there was none. As the author states, all "evidence" for the existence of God is based on isolated, uncorroborated, long ago writings, unsubstantiated claims of revelations, visions, and/or attributions of (scientifically verified and explainable) acts of nature or validated physical laws. All religious believers (and that's a vivid descriptive word) is based only on "Faith", meaning they may "know it to be true," but there is no empirical evidence to affirm that truth. While it is fundamentally difficult, given human nature, fear of death, and a consequent hope for an afterlife, to not believe in a theistic universe, the case (as well articulated by the author), makes it clear that, unlike science, our existence is purely the result of naturalistic and scientifically provable laws (or 'regularities') of the universe we live in. As he notes, this does nothing to diminish morality and goodness in the world, and in fact makes a strong argument for the beneficial outcomes through the ending of arbitrary religious dogma promoting hate, murder, withholding use of life-saving methods, and many other harmful doctrines. The book served to reinforce the conclusions that I had already reached through my own logical world view, and should serve as stimulating, enlightening, and perhaps required reading for many who question religion.
I've read and enjoyed Jerry Coyne's other book 'Why Evolution is True' and attended a few lectures by him, so this might be partially due to a preaching to the choir effect but... this was kind of a slog. I read and enjoy popular press science books and a lot of the big name atheists works fairly regularly but this took forever to get through more out of fatigue than anything. The book is divided into four (possibly five?) chapters which doesn't sound like a huge deal, but I can't help but think dividing the various sub-topics he covers into their own sections would have made it a more enjoyable read. It feels like he thought he had to cram as many thoughts as he could under broad categories instead of just dealing with each in their own unit an, for me, that made for kind of a ponderous experience. I've nothing to say about the content, I think it's well argued and well supported, but, again, not the most readable tome, and that's a shame since I know he can write. Why Evolution is True is really quite a good book, for example.If you're new to the argument he lays out, you may have a better experience than I did, but if this isn't your first time'round there isn't much you haven't seen to keep you focused or interested.
Coyne is mainly concerned about "theistic religion," by which he means religions (chiefly Abrahamic) based on the idea of a personal god who intervenes in human affairs. What he objects to is is not everything associated with religion, but specifically the readiness of people to believe without evidence, and to view such belief as a virtue. He recognizes that religion, broadly conceived, deserves study both for its psychological aspects and for its historical and artistic importance. But he cites evidence that the idea that we know what an intervening god wants can be destructive.
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