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So this week, Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health,

announced that he would retire at the end of the year.

An evangelical Christian who previously worked as the head of the Human Genome Project,

Collins' 2009 appointment, Drew Scorn.

This is from a 2010 profile in The New Yorker.

Collins read in the times that many of his colleagues in the scientific community

believed that he suffered from, quote, dementia.

Stephen Pinker, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard, questioned the appointment on the ground

that Collins

was, quote, an advocate of profoundly anti-scientific beliefs. Piz Mayers, a biologist at the University

of Minnesota, Morris, complained, quote, I don't want American science to be represented by a

clown. Nevertheless, Collins has served under three presidential administrations. During the pandemic,

he has spoken out a number of times in his efforts to dispel misconceptions about the virus and the vaccine.

Prior to his term at the NIH, Collins was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He also

wrote the bestselling book, The Language of God. A Scientist

presents evidence for belief, which won a CT book award. We wanted to discuss Collins' legacy

in the scientific and Christian communities. You are listening to Quick to Listen, where we go

beyond hashtags and hot takes to discuss a major cultural event.

I'm Worgia, Global Media Manager at Christianity Today.

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