I don't have a lot that's interesting to say about this, but Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project and possibly the most prominent theist in the hard sciences, has a long interview with Salon about how he marries religion and faith. I don't find all of it convincing, but nor do I find all of it unconvincing, and I think it's worthwhile for folks to read defenses of religion from an educated, complex perspective rather than the "cuz-the-Bible-sez-so" corner that so often gets raised up in the blogosphere. Moreover, it's rather nice to see a pointed critique of the sort of dogmatic atheism that too often passes for revealed truth because it cuts such a compelling contrast to James Dobson and Co.
