Truth and the Devil

In The Language of God, Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, argues, unlike other scientists who have published articles on the subject recently, that science and religion are completely and compatible and that science does not lead to atheism.

However, his attempts to reconcile science and religion are met with little success. His arguments are in no way novel, and his primary argument for the existence of a deity is based off of C.S. Lewis’ argument from Moral Law; that we all have an intrinsic moral sense, and this moral sense must have been given to us by God. Now, the fact that I disagree with the Moral Law argument wouldn’t be as bad if it didn’t seem that Collins had not read any further on theology than reading Lewis. He merely quotes Lewis as a justification for this belief and doesn’t address any criticisms of it.