My audiobook publisher is running a special deal until March 15: my audio book Faith versus Fact: The Incompatibility Between Science and Religion, for a pittance: $4.25. It’s not available on Amazon, so I’d say this is a good deal. To get it, click on the icon below, and, if you don’t want to buy into a continuing deal, click the blue “get discount” button and then check out. If you click the orange button, you’ll buy into a continuing series and will keep getting other books.
The blurb:
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.
Look at it this way: it’s cheaper than a Starbuck’s latte. And, as with all my books, if you send them to me with a postpaid return envelope, I’ll autograph them and even draw a cat inside.
Thank you Jerry. I purchased a copy for NZ$7.18. It’s my first ever audiobook purchase. Look forward to listening. All the best.
I went to Audible to compare the price, but there was none. It was for free for some reason. I have found this happening at Audible the past year as I search to see if a book is available. Of course, I snatch the free ones up. I don’t know why your book, or any of the others, are free. It just says “available for download.”
Thank you for reminding me it is on my TR list.
I already have a copy from Audible I bought a few years ago. I have to say I didn’t care for the narrator. The book is excellent and well worth the money.
I had no choice of the narrator; I would have prefer to have spoken it myself but that wasn’t an option.
The audiobook for Faith Versus Fact is also available for free streaming on Spotify (if you have a Premium subscription). I’m not sure for how long a book remains there for free, so I would recommend listening to it as soon as possible.
HA! Already got one (but I paid more than that!)
Also bought a copy for my sister in Australia!
D.A.
NYC
Can anyone tell a technophobe what sort of apps one needs to buy or, preferably, download for free, to take advantage of this great deal? I have an Android moto g5 stylus cellphone. That’s it! No computer. No wi-fi. I’m scraping bottom over here
Debi, I’m moved by your story. Ask Jerry to send you my email address. (Do you know his email address?) You can then email me your mailing address. I’ll arrange to have a paperback copy of “Fact vs Fiction” sent to you for free.
Oh my. That’s very kind of you. I will take you up on that. Thank you, Jon.
My pleasure.
Done!
The book is on its way.
It’s been hard for me to read a non-fiction book in recent years because, you know, the internet. But I’ve decided to back-up and get “Fact vs Fiction” in paperback so I can add it to my library of books by the “Four Horsemen” of atheist thought. (And, yes, I intend to read it, too.)
(I could see — hear — listening to an audiobook if I commuted, but I don’t commute, and audiobooks haven’t otherwise appealed to me.)
Seems a great offer! I have the paperback and I highly recommend reading/listening.