Franics Collins

[Jehanne]

I think Beccs nailed it.  Collins has been quoted:

In your book, you say religion and science can coexist in one person's mind. This has been a struggle for some people, especially in terms of evolution. How do you reconcile evolution and the Bible?


As someone who's had the privilege of leading the human genome project, I've had the opportunity to study our own DNA instruction book at a level of detail that was never really possible before.

It's also now been possible to compare our DNA with that of many other species. The evidence supporting the idea that all living things are descended from a common ancestor is truly overwhelming.

I would not necessarily wish that to be so, as a Bible-believing Christian. But it is so. It does not serve faith well to try to deny that.

So he is a fully competent scientific mind who simply chooses to believe in nonsense for reasons of his own.  I have no doubt that other "True Xtians" will denounce him for his lack of faith but on the other hand they need all the help they can get.  The only problem with guys like Collins is that he gives the morons some cover.

As H. L. Mencken noted:

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

And, yet, Collins believes, perhaps implicitly, in Adam & Eve:

https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com...a-contest/