nytimes.com - 7/28/2009
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PRESIDENT OBAMA has nominated Francis Collins to be the next director of the National Institutes of Health. It would seem a brilliant choice. Dr. Collins’s credentials are impeccable: he is a physical chemist, a medical geneticist and the former head of the Human Genome Project. He is also, by ...
nytimes.com - 7/26/2009
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Washington SIX months ago, when President Obama and
I took office, we were confronted with an economic...
crisis unparalleled in our lifetime. The nation was hemorrhaging more than 700,000 jobs a month, the housing market was in free fall, and the fate ...
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nytimes.com - 7/27/2009
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nytimes.com - 7/26/2009
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Providence, R.I. IN a speech delivered earlier this
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... that minds are the products of brains, and brains are the products of evolution. Dr. Collins takes a different approach: he insists that at some moment in the development of our species God inserted crucial components — including an immortal soul, free will, the moral law, spiritual hunger, genuine altruism, etc. As someone who believes that our understanding of human nature can be derived from neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science and behavioral economics, among others, I am troubled by Dr. Collins’s line of thinking . I also believe it would seriously undercut fields ...
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... I’m sure someone has made the point I’m about to make, but I haven’t seen it, so: in Sam Harris’s recent op-ed about President Obama’s choice of Francis Collins to head the National Institutes of Health, he makes it very clear that his only objection to Collins is the man’s religious beliefs. “Dr. Collins’s credentials are impeccable: he is a physical chemist, a medical geneticist and the former head of the Human Genome Project.” Yet the U. S. Constitution ...
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