Jerry Coyne is definitely going to Hell, that is if Hell exists, which it probably doesn’t. His new book “Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible” should probably be resubtitled as “Why Religion is Contemptible.” It is a strong, provocative well-reasoned book that makes a very good case that science, being fact-based, is the only way to learn the truth about the world, while religion is faith-based and has no such grounding. He does a great job debunking the beliefs of most religious people, e.g. in the virgin birth, the resurrection, Adam and Eve, the flood, etc. and recounting the horrors religion has unleashed on the world, e.g. opposition to vaccination and modern medicine. However, there are some flaws in the book. First, while he devotes most of the book critiquing Christianity and Islam (and Mormonism, Scientology, etc.), they are easy targets. He says practically nothing about Judaism, which is much less of a dogmatic anti-science religion and much more compatible with science, particularly the dominant Reform variety. And while he decries the “god of the gaps” philosophy, he seems to espouse a similar theory where evolution fills all gaps. All human behavior is conjectured to be the result of evolutionary forces (a la Sociobiology) which no supporting evidence other than fanciful theories about how they are or might have been adaptive. It is too bad that he doesn’t believe, and there isn’t any evidence for, resurrection. Then we could bring Stephen Jay Gould, one of the deities of evolutionary biology, back to life to debate Coyne. That would be a debate worth watching!