Francis S. Collins

Having gotten through Sam Harris, Daniel Dennent, and Richard Dawkins, I thought I'd give the other side a look. I picked up Huston Smith's Why Religion Matters and put it down after only a chapter or two: entirely too ignorant of science to be meaningful. I've just put down Francis Collins's The Language of God. Though I got as far as chapter four, I really ended all meaningful interaction with the book on page 67 where I read the following:

The big Bang cries out for a divine explanation. It forces the conclusion that nature had a defined beginning. I cannot see how nature could have created itself. Only a supernatural force that is outside of space and time could have done that.

Coming from the head of the genome project, the absurd logic here defies all understanding! All this and, by extension, the rest of the book, really says is this: I can't understanding X, Y, or Z, so I guess there must be a God! Needless to say, I won't waste anymore time with Collins.