The 'Evidence for Belief': An Interview with Francis Collins

This is fascinating. It's an interview with Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project and convert to Christianity. His ideas on the inherent compatibility of science and faith are fascinating. Some of the questions he was asked were:

• You write in your book...that God can be worshipped in a cathedral or in a laboratory. Elaborate a little bit...on that statement.
  
  
• We have all of these famous stories in our history that pit science against faith [e.g. Galileo's trial]...And they have created this impression that there is an inherent conflict between religion and science. Do you believe there is such an inherent conflict?
  
  
• Some Christians will say: “Look, you can’t pick and choose the parts of the Holy Scripture that you want to take literally. And so, if you’re going to call into question the literalness of some parts, you inherently call into question the literal truth of it all.” So how do you, as a scientist and a Christian, respond to that line of reasoning?
  

I highly recommend reading the whole thing. It's fascinating.


via Evangelical Outpost