The Language of God

The Language of God is a book about a famous geneticist, Francis Collins, who was the lead scientist of the Human Genome Project. This book is interesting because often a geneticist is a scientist that has devoted most of his/her professional career proving genetic evolution is the reason for such a diverse world which goes against many forms of religion. Dr. Collins is a strong believer in his faith and an accomplished scientist which he explains how he thinks the two can coexist.
Collins gives his theory and attempts to explain how we can believe in both if God and science. Collins begins his book with letting the reader that was he was a child he was agnostic, unsure of what to believe. He describes his early belief as not so much I know but more as “I don’t want to know.” But after graduating Yale his beliefs began to shift from agnostic to atheist. He blames his educational career for changing him because with dual Ph.D degrees is mathematics and physical chemistry he believed that everything has to be explained by laws of science and math.
After graduating Yale with two PhD’s he decided to take a biochemistry class that he tried so hard to avoid earlier in his life to “broaden his horizon.” He fell in love with what he was learning and what the question of life was. He applied and was accepted to medical school at UNC where his beliefs began to change. He was exposed to many extremely sick, terminally ill patients that seemed very relaxed and confident everything would work out. He spent a lot of time talking to these people about their beliefs and was fascinated with the faith that they had in their religion. These people began to leave lasting impressions on Dr. Collins and ended up causing him to investigate religions.