(June 5, 2014 at 10:45 am)Napoléon Wrote: I don't really see this as relevant. Francis Collins is already living in a brainwashed mindset, evidently. He uses the same old religious cop-outs to avoid having to actually scrutinise his own beliefs. I have no doubt if he applied scientific reason to his own beliefs objectively, he'd come to the only rational conclusion. The problem is he obviously doesn't want to do that.
Unless I'm missing something.
I posted an interview with him in another topic where he explained his religious history. His parents were only nominally Christian and when he went to college he because a very enthusiastic atheist. Around 15 years later when he was a doctor he was impressed by the comfort that some religious dying patients found in their faith. He wondered why and eventually ended up converting to Christianity. Yes, he's in a brainwashed mindset but he brainwashed himself.
There are quantum physicists who are into quantum mysticism. Jesuit astronomers at the cutting edge of astronomy are still looking for God in everything. Nobody really knows why humans evolved to have religious belief but it seems to be driving the majority of the population to search for something to believe in. Thousands of people in Britain have abandoned Christianity but they haven't all become atheists because NeoPaganism is very popular.
Where are the snake and mushroom smilies?