Jesus Goes to Bethesda

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Jesus Goes to Bethesda

Just how religious is Obama's nominee for director of the NIH?
By Chris Wilson
Posted Thursday, July 9, 2009, at 7:28 PM ET


Whenever scientists get around to hunting for the Boy Scout gene, they should start with the genome of Francis Collins. President Obama's nominee for director of the National Institutes of Health has a folk résumé a mile long...

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Collins is also a decorated scientist with a Yale Ph.D. in physical chemistry that he finished on weekends after he'd half-quit graduate school to get a medical degree instead. His composite public image—as a brilliant, eminently likable polymath—allows him to get away with talking openly in scientific circles about another quirk of his personality: Since age 27, he has been an evangelical Christian.

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