Serving Bread

Many people 150 years ago saw no real conflict between Darwin and God. Darwin’s theory was actually embraced by many in the church as an answer to the question, “How did God accomplish the creation?” Darwin’s theory meant to be about the connectedness of all living things—in fact, today, nothing in biology or medicine can really be interpreted without it But evolution has been turned into a theological and philosophical argument, and that, I think, was much more than Darwin intended.

—Francis Collins, Former director of the Human Genome Project,

quoted in “Fast Company” (February 2009)

(For those of you in the LA area, Collins will be speaking at Beckman Auditorium on the Cal Tech campus on February 5th at 8 p.m.)