Re: Genome issues

From: Martin Ling (martin@nodezero.org.uk)
Date: Sun Jun 25 2000 - 13:09:16 MDT


On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 09:15:22PM -0700, hal@finney.org wrote:
> I had recorded the Charlie Rose show from Tuesday night and finally
> watched it. It was an interview with Dr. Francis Collins, head of the
> Human Genome Project.
>
> Collins comes off as an enthusiastic and energetic guy in this wide
> ranging interview. However he is rather conventional ethically, a
> religious man, and this seemed to color some of his responses.

IIRC, Collins' father was a vicar, and he says that he inherited many
virtues from him but not the beliefs themselves.

(I have not seen the programme you referred to - I recall this from an
article in the Guardian a month or two ago).

Martin

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