Watch how fast his fellows will shun and/or marginalize him now. And watch how fast the media will forget he ever existed.
See post #25 to learn how unfounded your conspiracy theory is.
Dr. Collins 'outed' himself long ago. He's tolerated by the scientific side. But, I saw him silence a room full of believers last year when he was discussing evolution and the similarities of base pairs in the genome of the mouse and humans.
I'm a believer that we all had the same Architect (or Designer, but that designation carries alot of baggage and I came up with the Architect designation in Comparative Anatomy, before I heard of ID), who does not lie, and by Whose grace we all exist. I love to measure and explore His creation and sometimes I'm confused about the meaning of the data. But none of it disproves His existence.
This is a key line:
“One of the great tragedies of our time is this impression that has been created that science and religion have to be at war,” said Collins, 56.