July 9, 2009
WINNING THE WAR ON SCIENCE:
Obama's new NIH chief links God, science (LAURAN NEERGAARD, 7/08/09, AP)
President Barack Obama is choosing an influential scientist who helped unravel the human genetic code - and is known for finding common ground between belief in God and science - to head the National Institutes of Health. [...]The folksy Collins led the Human Genome Project that, along with a competing private company, mapped the genetic code - or, as he famously called it, "the book of human life."
"It is humbling for me, and awe-inspiring, to realize that we have caught the first glimpse of our own instruction book, previously known only to God," he said at a 2000 White House ceremony marking release of the genome's first draft.
For that work, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award. But he may be more widely known for his 2007 best-selling book, "The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief."
If you wonder what makes us exceptional, we have a chief scientist who's a Creationist whereas the leaders of Europe's established religions aren't.