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Salon has a great piece on Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, and the role that his Evangelical Christianity plays in his science [hat tip Ezra]. Collins is a well respected scientist and a perfect example of how faith and science do not have to be in conflict:
Go read the article...it is worth it. Comments, Pingbacks:Both of these extremes don't stand up to logic I like Francis Collins a lot. I've paid attention to him for a few years now. I once sat and listened to a 2 hour lecture he gave before some religious panel about science and faith. But I think the above quoted statement is (a) incorrect, but more importantly (b) misguided. His moderate position - middle ground, whatever - is fine - but it isn't grounded in logic. He may strive to keep it consistent with logic (and kudos that he does so), but religion versus atheism is not decided in favor of religion through logic. If anything, that can only be decided in favor of religion through faith. There is no logical compulsion.
Comment from: Roland [Visitor] 08/09/06 @ 08:30
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Although Salon isn't exactly a bastion of truth, it's cool that they published this.
I heard an interview with this guy on the radio yesterday and he was talking about how years ago, the prevailing scientific thought was that the universe always existed and that the Big Bang theory was just a ploy by religious kooks trying to prove that the universe was finite and had a beginning. Fast forward to today. We now know that the universe is expanding and that it HAD to have had a cataclysmic beginning and that anyone who says otherwise...is a religious kook! Leave a comment:
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