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To: John Pitera who wrote (6418)	6/30/2002 10:37:27 AM
From: John Pitera	Respond to of 33421

Francis Collins... one of the true impact players.... He the most fundamentally correct reading list for the summer. Don't let the summer slip away without reading, "... what are you truly doing with your life"? ---- James Elston ---- some have told me that if I did not point a few of these things out that some might not get them. Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute Hear the interview with Francis Collins. June 23, 2002. A quick glance at Francis Collins' reading list reveals that the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute is fascinated by the points at which science intersects religion -- specifically, Christianity. One book examines similarities between Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis. Another tries to reconcile belief in God with belief in evolution. Can a person believe equally in both? "I firmly believe you can," says this man of deep faith who also has a reputation as one of the world's top scientific minds. Collins mostly reads scientific journals, so he has limited time for "pleasure" reading. Still, he's usually reading something, and he finds pleasure almost exclusively in nonfiction. "I enjoy (fiction) on those occasions maybe if I do have a summer vacation, I might take along a book of fiction," he says. "But oftentimes I find I'm hungry for a nonfiction experience of some sort, that I've been waiting for the chance to dive into." Recommendations: •Shots in the Dark: The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine, Jon Cohen •Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution, Kenneth Miller •The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life, Armand Nicholi •Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, Matt Ridley •The Common Thread: A Story of Science, Politics, Ethics and the Human Genome, John Sulston •Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis What He's Reading Now: •Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Jared Diamond •The Bible ......... npr.org