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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NPR’s Up First podcast for today interviews Dr. Collins, who you may have heard talking about COVID, about his journey from atheism up science.

https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510318/up-first[/quote]

It’s a really interesting podcast. Dr. Collins is a geneticist, he runs NIH, and he ran the Human Genome Project. Obama appointed him and then Trump and Biden reappointed him. He’s also an evangelical, but he’s a strong supporter of COVID vaccines and he talks a bit about how some evangelicals became skeptical, and some of the inconsistencies in their thinking he wants to help them understand. He talks about his conversion (spoiler: it involves patients and C.S. Lewis). [/quote]

Spoiler - he was hiking when he saw a waterfall in three sections and thought it represented the trinity.  (PS "trinity" is not mentioned in the bible.)

At any rate, he supports vaccines because he is a scientist.  There is nothing about evangelical Christianity that is against vaccines, it's just that some stupid evangelicals are against them. Not all evangelicals are stupid, with Dr Collins as an example.[/quote]

He thinks the processes of evolution (which he believes in) are too amazing to be completely random—and he’s a top geneticist. That’s a little more relevant than what he thinks about doctrinal issues like the trinity, souls or heaven (which are also covered in the podcast).[/quote]

PS. With his scientific credentials, you can’t paint this guy as a flake.[/quote]

Not as a flake, just a smart and educated person who, for reasons only he can explain, has chosen to espouse the Argument for Incredulity Fallacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_incredulity[/quote]

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