Scientist encourages skeptics to investigate GodWILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. --He opened the session by improvising on hymns at the piano and concluded it by accompanying a sing-along on the guitar. In between, he delivered a compelling account of his unlikely conversion from atheism to evangelical Christianity.
The lanky, amiable platform personality wasn't some traveling revivalist but one of the world's leading biologists.
Francis S. Collins led the international Human Genome Project that mapped the 3.1 billion chemical base pairs in humanity's DNA. He now directs the U.S. government program on applying that information to medical treatments.
He's also emerged as a surprise advocate for faith and for its compatibility with science.
The 56-year-old Collins addressed the clash of science and religion last weekend during a conference at Williams College sponsored by the C.S. Lewis Foundation -- appropriately so, since the writings of the English literature scholar were instrumental in Collins' conversion.
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