“Before he died, Hitchens called Collins “one of the greatest living Americans.” “
“Steven Pinker, the Harvard psychologist who fiercely criticized Collins’s nomination on account of his “primitive, shamanistic, superstitious” religious views, told me in an e-mail that he had changed his mind about Collins, for two reasons.”
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He (Francis Collins) always struck me as a competent and diligent scientist. I never knew about his religious views, and frankly, didn't care. I still don't.
So who is Collins?
Francis collins.
Head of the national institute of health in the USA and a seminal figure in the human genome project.
Oh.
Yeah.
And he's also a devout Christian, as if the NIH or the human genome project gave a shit about that.