Science and the Sacred: Collins, Francis
Dr. Francis Collins is a physician and geneticist known for spearheading the Human Genome Project and for his landmark discoveries of disease genes. Collins founded the BioLogos Foundation in November 2007 and served as its president until August 16, 2009, when he resigned to become director of the National Institutes of Health. (Note: All blogs written by Collins were completed before accepting his duty as director of the NIH). You can read more about Dr. Collins here.
Blogs by Collins
Francis Collins and Karl Giberson Talk about Evolution and the Church, Part 6
April 9, 2011
That ought to make us really frightened for our future. So you have a population that is not well conditioned to basically consider what it means to say there is evidence for something. Evidence maybe has never really entered the thought process and a lot of people who are then faced with a decision about, “Am I going to believe this or am I going to believe that?”Comments (93)
Francis Collins and Karl Giberson Talk about Evolution and the Church, Part 5
April 2, 2011
What an awful circumstance we’ve put young people in. Many of them who are sending emails every week in crisis trying to figure out whether, if the church is lying to them about the origins, has the church lied to them about the whole thing? The God of all truth cannot be served by such a noble lie and yet the church in many ways has been caught up in that, despite their best intentions to tell the truth.Comments (44)
Francis Collins and Karl Giberson Talk about Evolution and the Church, Part 4
March 26, 2011
It is very hard for me to imagine what they will do. Science by its very nature ought to be unfettered by any particular perspective on what these right answers are supposed to be. And yet here you are setting up this scientific circumstance that has as its goal to support intelligent design theory. That is counter to the way that science has to be conducted.Comments (20)
Francis Collins and Karl Giberson Talk about Evolution and the Church, Part 3
March 19, 2011
There is an interesting claim being made today by people like Phillip Johnson that runs exactly counter to this. This is the claim that evolution is based on a big deception, that there isn’t any solid basis at all for the theory, and that people are gradually abandoning evolution. Are there evolutionists that are jumping ship?Comments (19)
Francis Collins and Karl Giberson Talk about Evolution and the Church, Part 2
March 12, 2011
The evidence is overwhelming. And it is becoming more and more robust down to the details almost by the day, especially because we have this ability now to use the study of DNA as a digital record of the way Darwin’s theory has played out over the course of long periods of time.Comments (25)
Francis Collins and Karl Giberson Talk about Evolution and the Church
March 5, 2011
The fundamental nature of evolution is a comment on our biological nature and that’s a lot closer to the “image of God” concept than whether the earth floats around the sun or the other way around. So I don’t think it’s a perfect parallel, though I wish it were. I wish we could say, “We can get comfortable with evolution now just as easily as the church has gotten comfortable with heliocentricity.”Comments (68)
A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart
June 22, 2009
I recently read some published sermons by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. The depth and breadth of his eloquent defense of truth and justice are profoundly inspiring.Comments (0)
Creating a Community to Explore the Harmony of Science and Faith
June 1, 2009
Today would have been my mother's 100th birthday. At her memorial service last year, family and friends sang "Will the Circle Be Unbroken." The verses powerfully captured the loss I felt as a grieving son, but the chorus offered reassurance: "Will the circle be unbroken, by and by, Lord, by and by? There's a better home awaiting, in the sky, Lord, in the sky."Comments (0)
Evolution and the Imago Dei
May 11, 2009
Genesis 1:26-27 reads: "Then God said, `Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.' So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them."Comments (8)
BioLoguration
April 29, 2009
It happened again this week. I received an e-mail from a student at a major university who is in the midst of a profound personal crisis.Comments (14)