Francis Collins on science and faith

AN EVANGELICAL Christian claiming that science is not in contradiction with the Bible might normally get short shrift in the smarter salons of Washington. But what happens when the speaker is the man who led the sequencing of the human genome and now heads attempts to find a vaccine for covid-19 ? Such is the case of Francis Collins, who on May 20th was awarded the Templeton Prize, perhaps the world’s most prestigious gong for those trying to bridge the gap between science and faith. Recent laureates have included Marcelo Gleiser, a physicist, Alvin Plantinga, a philosopher, and Martin Rees, Britain’s astronomer royal.