Francis Collins on Religion and Science

Geneticist Francis Collins is getting lots of publicity, and lots of flack, for his new book The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.  There seems to be some disbelief that a scientist would try to push his faith like this.  I don't see how this is much different from some of Richard Dawkins's and Daniel Dennett's books, though.

For some of the flack, see this post over at ScienceBlogs: Neurotopia (version 2.0) : Francis Collins is Confused.

Update: Salon just published a good interview with Collins -- Salon: The Believer.  I think he and his book come across better in this interview than in previous media coverage.

Comments

[Evil Monkey]

I'm not surprised at all that he's pushing his faith. What bothers me is that he does it by disparaging nontheists in weak, pathetic, self-contradictory ways. You're exactly right-- it makes him no better than Dawkins or Dennett.