Religion and Science

A few related things I've come across in the last few days:

- Mike Pence can't admit he believes in evolution, and Chris Matthews explains why that makes the GOP less-credible on policy issues - especially energy, enviro, climate change (how is the science mixed if you don't believe in science?) issues that are science-laden.

- Francis Collins, the devout Christian and evolutionary scientist who ran the Human Genome Project is starting a blog, Biologos, to help reconcile faith and science.

- The results of a new study on genetic diversity in Africa shows that Africans are more genetically divers than the rest of the wold combined! Cataloging genetic mutations (something that Collins studies as well) is big for medicine and may also take anthropology out of the digs and into the genetic labs.