Francis Collins on Science and Faith

Anyone interested in the conversation between science and faith will benefit from watching this talk by Francis Collins, physicist, medical doctor, microbiologist, head of the NIH Human Genome project, and Christian believer. It is a wonderful and illuminating discussion and sets an example of the way in which I hope the conversation will proceed in the coming decades. He is a little more hopeful than I am about the ways in which human beings are likely to use what scientists are learning. But his embodiment of the possibility of being both a rigorous rational scientist and a believer that the moral law is fundamental to what human beings are is wonderfully encouraging.

(I am very grateful to my former student Jason, who heard the talk, for sending me the link.)