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I don't think there's anything more repulsive than a liar, except for a compulsive liar like yourself. The first line of the story says that Collins is going to publish a book explaining why he now believes in the existence of God. If my vocabulary is even below average I would still understand that "NOW" to mean that he didn't believe in God before, and that his ephipany was at least a fairly recent event.

From the article: the guy's 56 now and he's believed in God since age 27. No one is claiming it happened any earlier than that.

"Compulsive liar?" Vocabulary would not seem to be the issue here. I bet you don't have the integrity to apologize to Ichneumon.

"Compulsive liar?" Vocabulary would not seem to be the issue here. I bet you don't have the integrity to apologize to Ichneumon."

Rule # 1, never apologize to a liar or his lying friends just because they lie more.

Collins wrote in that article that extremist scientists, (those who don't believe in God), have had a "shrill" voice on the subject, and have "dominated" the (anti-God) debate in science for 20 years. Those are his words, and those words prove my original allegation in spades, namely, that those scientists who do believe in God and say so, will be subjected to the "shrill" and "dominant" cat-calls of their peers.

No matter how you try to slice and dice it, the article conveys the notion that Collins is a recent, (or at least fairly recent), convert to faith; as the piece clearly relates. The title of the article is: "I Found God, says man who cracked genome". The very first sentence in the article says that Collines is publishing a book "explaining why he 'now' believes in the existence of God".

The article continues on to say he was an atheist till age 27, when he was given a C.S. Lewis book, but does NOT say that he became a believer then. IN FACT, it is not until two paragraphs later that the story says Collins had his "epiphamy" while hiking through the Cascade Mountians in Washington State. There is nothing specific written about how much time elapsed between his receiving the C.S. Lewis book and his actualy "epiphany". The only clues given in the story as to the age of his actual conversion are in the headlines and in the first sentence of the story.

If you're a scientist you had better rethink your profession, you're ability to research and reach sound conclusions from your 'study' really sucks. (Is "suck" an acceptable word in FR?)