Nuggets from Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny

Francis Collins is another case in point. Certainly one of the foremost geneticists alive today, he was director of the National Human Genome Research Institute from 1993-2009, having “headed a multinational 2,300-scientist team that co-mapped the 3 billion biochemical letters of our genetic blueprint, a milestone that then-President Bill Clinton honored in a 2000 White House ceremony. . . . He is also a forthright Christian who converted from atheism at age 27 and now finds time to advise young evangelical scientists on how to declare their faith in science’s largely agnostic upper reaches.”