Francis Collins: Born-again christian and scientist

In Newsweek

Well, so does the pope, but the Vatican has said it finds no conflict between Christian faith and evolution. Neither does Francis Collins, the director of the Human Genome Institute at the National Institutes of Health and an outspoken evangelical. He wrote recently of his view that God, "who created the universe, chose the remarkable mechanism of evolution to create plants and animals of all sorts." It may require some metaphysical juggling, but if more people could take that view,
there would be fewer conflicts like the one in Dover.

Background of Collins is quite fascinating

Collins, a physician, geneticist and born-again Christian, is a small-town Virginia farm boy who went on to become leader of a University of Toronto team that successively identified the genes for cystic fibrosis, neurofibromatosis and, in collaboration with others, Huntington disease. Convinced that progress against human illness depends on greater understanding of the genes, he welcomed the opportunity to lead the government's multibillion-dollar Human Genome Project when, in 1993, he was named to succeed James Watson as director of the National Center for Humane Genome Research.

From link

In a very insightful article Collins explains his faith as a scientist
Can an evangelical believe in evolution.

Collins reminds us of St. Augustine who wrote

In matters that are obscure and far beyond our vision, even in such as we may find treated in Holy Scripture, different Interpretations are sometimes possible without prejudice to the faith we have received. In such a case, we should not rush in headlong and so firmly take our stand on one side that, if further progress in the search of truth justly undermines this position, we too fall with it.[2]

[2] St. Augustine, The Literal Meaning of Genesis, Book 1, chap. 18, in Ancient Christian Writers 41, translated and annotated by John Hammond Taylor, S.J.
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