An Evolution for Evangelicals
Francis Collins is the physician-geneticist who led the Human Genome Project for the National Institutes of Health and is noted for his discoveries of disease genes. Alas, he came along about eight decades too late for Bryan. But he may have entered the zeitgeist just in time for thousands (millions?) of others who have trouble embracing both Darwin and God without, as Collins puts it, their brains exploding.
Collins created the BioLogos Foundation and last month launched a Web site — biologos.org — to advance an alternative to the extreme views that tend to dominate the debate.
Yes, he asserted to a room full of journalists gathered here, one can believe in both God and science. In fact, says Collins, the latter does more to prove the existence of a creator than not.
This doesn’t mean that Collins falls in line with those promoting creation science or, more recently, intelligent design. He merely insists that belief in God doesn’t preclude acceptance of evolution.