Reddit mentions of The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief

i haven't read it, but The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief by Francis Collins is probably in the vein of what you are looking for.

Here is a list of almost 70 books on science and faith but my favorite one is The language of God

You might want to check out Francis Collins', M.d., Phd. (former head of the National Center for Human Genome Research) book The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief. As I've said here before, I don't find the book extremely convincing, but Collins' scholarly pedigree makes him someone worth listening to (much more than say a Lee Strobel).

Upvoted, and I wanted to add that Francis is now the director of the NIH. There are many kinds of Christians, and some of them definitely believe that science is good and we are supposed to use our rationality to investigate the natural world.

He also wrote this book which might give some insight to anyone interested in how he views the relationship between faith and science. I don't agree with him on every particular, but I do think that theists of his stripe are a far cry from the fundamentalists and the God-hates-fags wackos.

Another excellent book is The Language of God by Dr. Francis Collins (former director of the Human Genome Project and current director of the National Institute of Health).

Regarding your second question, some would argue (rightly, I believe) that a literal interpretation requires analyzing the text as it would have been understood for its contemporary audience. This requires translating culture along with the obvious language translation. The ancient cultures (not just Jews, but Akkadians, Sumerians, Egyptians, etc.) were much more concerned with existence/creation from a functional perspective (something exists because it has purpose), in contrast to modern thoughts that they deal with the material nature.

I'm presently reading The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate by John Walton, and would definitely recommend getting your hands on it if this topic interests you. While you can take this with a grain of salt, Walton doesn't appear be using an escapist argument to avoid disagreement between other "literal" (e.g. 6,000 year old earth) interpretations of Genesis and modern science. He makes a compelling case for his form of literal interpretation, and the Christian/genome-scientist Francis Collins has come out in support of it.

check out this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Collins and his book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Language-God-Scientist-Presents/dp/0743286391

I haven't read it myself, but I have always wanted to.

Francis Collins has a pretty decent book called The Language of God, though he mostly reiterates CS Lewis.

But it's an interesting read as he was the head of the Human Genome Project, and made an appeal to fundies to stop tying Christianity to the anchor of Creationism.

Francis Collins, who is the director of the National Institute of Hell and author of books such as "The Language of God" is an Evangelical Christian, and firm believer in the compatibility of Faith and Evolutionary science.

Francis Collins was the director of the Human Genome Project. He is a Christian, but (obviously) completely accepts the theory of evolution. His book The Language of Life explains why. His book The Language of God attempts to strike a middle ground between science and religion. It's pretty good, even though I (an atheist) disagree with many of his conclusions.

i realize that this is not a statement of support for ID. truthfully, i don't know if such a list exists, but since you wouldn't be convinced by such a thing anyway, here's three scientists with scientific reasons for supporting ID:

http://www.evolutionnews.org/2007/05/scientists_who_support_intelli.html.

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Francis Collins who headed up the Human Genome project would certainly qualify as a fourth.
http://www.amazon.com/Language-God-Scientist-Presents-Evidence/dp/0743286391.

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And then there was this video posted to reddit a couple days ago pointing problems with the fossil record, and problems with the scientific community's acceptence of the facts when they don't match their beliefs.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6ae_1228315222

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You'll probably point out that this is hardly "quite a number of high profile scientists." but it's not a bad for my 5 minutes of searching (I'm sure I could turn up a whole lot more with more effort). The original statement I took issue with said "there's nothing scientific about intelligent design."

These four examples would seem to indicate there there is indeed some science to ID.

If you're interested here's another good one

True that.

Too bad one of the head evangelicals, Francis Collins, is such an asshole and won't do anything about it, and he knows how to do it. I've read his book, The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief, and what utter trash. I picked it up thinking, "a-ha" finally someone with credentials will explain to me in language I understand. I couldn't believe the trash he wrote. He did include real science, that is for sure. But it was as if he took real science and interspersed it with standard religious text that anyone could have written. He then alternated chapters, one having nothing to do with the other. There was no linkage at all. I guess he wants to make people think that because he is the head of the NIH, and put some "science-y" words with standard irrational religious tracts, that somehow confers some legitimacy to the religious part. And then, the language he used was far from scientific. It was biased as hell. His favorite epithet is "angry atheist." I see that all the time in all his writings. He sure didn't spare it in his The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief. Pretty shitty biased words were used throughout the book - science does not try to bias it's work. Even though it is difficult, science tries not to - one of the many ways is not use non-biased language.

Francis Collins, evangelicalism's main man, is a joke.