A Video Featuring Francis Collins
Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., is an American physician-geneticist noted for his discoveries of disease genes and his leadership of the Human Genome Project. He now serves as Director of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, currently focused on efforts to find treatments and a vaccine for Covid-19.
Prior to being appointed Director, he was the founder and president of the BioLogos Foundation, an organization that promotes discourse on the relationship between science and religion.
Collins, 70, also wrote the New York Times bestseller, The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief (Free Press Publishers, 2006) which discusses Collins’ conversion from atheism to Christianity. He has since written and co-written three other books. In 2009 Pope Benedict XVI appointed Collins to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
In September 2020, Collins was awarded the $1.3M Templeton Prize for his work to reconcile science and religion. The prize, first awarded in 1973, honours those who have advanced the vision of “harnessing the power of the sciences to explore the deepest questions of the universe and humankind’s place and purpose within it.”
In this short video (7:22), Collins is interviewed by Robert Lawrence Kuhn. Kuhn is the host of the broadcast and digital media not-for-profit organization Closer to Truth, which presents interviews and videos featuring the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Closer to Truth is also a weekly television show, which has aired on PBS and public television stations in the U.S. since 2000. This video and others like it can also be found on Closer To Truth’s YouTube Channel.
