Choice of geneticist a breakthrough for evangelicals: Gerson
(NEWSER) - Francis Collins, President Obama's nominee to lead the National Institutes of Health, is a pioneering biologist who led the team that mapped the human genome. He's also an evangelical Christian—a rarity among scientists, only 7% of whom say they believe in God. For Michael Gerson of the Washington Post, selecting Collins speaks well of Obama and of evangelicalism, "which is starting to abandon some of its least productive debates with modernity." More»
