Nuggets from Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny

He will not forsake His faith in God because he knows there had to be a Creator. But if the facts should prove evolution to be true, he would be willing to say, “I guess that’s the way God chose to do it”—even though that would make no sense. Francis Collins is evidence of this openness.

In contrast, the atheist cannot be this open-minded. He cannot “allow a Divine Foot in the door,” and that restricts his research and intellectual honesty. There is no such person as an “atheistic theist” who would be comparable to a theistic evolutionist.