President Obama has nominated Francis Collins to be the next leader of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH.) Collins is a well-known geneticist in the science community who has spoken about what he sees as the compatibility of science and faith. My colleague Daniel Gorelick has written all about this on his blog, Science Planet. Go read it!
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