In fact, the head of the Human Genome Project (the publicly funded one not the Celera private venture), is an openly devout christian.
Are you sure about that? I thought it was the other way around - that it was J. Craig Venter, the Celera guy, who was the Christian.
The guy who was (one of?) the head(s) of the Human Genome Project, John Sulston, seems to be pretty agnostic:
quote:
Sulston was merely an adequate student who got interested in science in adolescence, and found its explanations better than his father's religion could offer: "As a strategy for living, religion didn't make much sense to me."
(from a review of a book of his:
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I dunno, though. Maybe I've got it wrong. It's a quibble, and it doesn't change your point - a scientist is about as likely to be devoutly religious as they are arrogantly atheist.