How does a very intelligent and accomplished scientist reconcile his religious beliefs with his scientific knowledge?
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The answer, it turns out, is: not very convincingly. Francis Collins, the director of the Human Genome Project and author of the recent book The Language of God, is both a Christian and a biologist and asserts that this does not generate a mental conflict.
Collins starts with a completely valid observation about the limitations of scientific inquiry.
I had to admit that the science I loved so much was powerless to answer questions such as “What is the meaning of life?” “Why am I here?” “Why does mathematics work, anyway?” “If the universe had a beginning, who created it?” “Why are ...
