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WASHINGTON - After reading from his book on science and religion to an audience of 150 people at an independent bookstore here, Francis Collins saw the interactions he hoped would occur.
Collins watched as audience members struck up earnest conversations, debating back and forth about one of the knottiest philosophical issues of the day. “It was […]
WASHINGTON - After reading from his book on science and religion to an audience of 150 people at an independent bookstore here, Francis Collins saw the interactions he hoped would occur.
Collins watched as audience members struck up earnest conversations, debating back and forth about one of the knottiest philosophical issues of the day. “It was just what I hoped for,” Collins said in reflecting on the event the next day.
Collins’ new book, The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief, is partly an effort to synthesize his beliefs as an evangelical Christian with his work as one of the world’s foremost scientists studying the human genome.
But the book is also Collins’ effort to bridge the vast differences between what he sees as the wrong - headed mentalities of both scientists and evangelicals.
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