Science shouldn't be seen as a threat.

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As any high school student knows, Christianity and science have sniped at each other for 500 years, since at least the days of Copernicus. The battle is still going on, on both sides.

In 2009, when President Barack Obama chose geneticist Francis Collins as director of the National Institutes of Health, Collins' scientific colleagues were aghast.

Some charged that Collins was a "clown" or suffered from "dementia," to quote a recent profile of Collins in The New Yorker magazine.

No one argued with Collins' professional credentials. As the magazine reported, he "long ago secured his place in the first rank of international scientists."

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