[Ichneumon]

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.

[hosepipe]

[ See post #25 ]

Hmm.. Can physics be a second reality?..
Can evolution be a second reality?..
Can cosmology be a second reality?..

[TheCrusader]

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.

Be that as it may, Collins himself reveals his dismay in the article over the shrill voices of the anti-God agenda within the science community have dominated the stage for over 20 years. Here is his quote:

"“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.--“I don’t see that as necessary at all and I think it is deeply disappointing that the shrill voices that occupy the extremes of this spectrum have dominated the stage for the past 20 years.”

Collins has quite obviously felt the bitterness of the ostracizing arrows sent his way by the anti-God extremists within his own community to make such a powerful and emotional statement as he did. The anti-God extremists in the science community have "Dominated the stage for 20 years"; that's one very powerful statement that really says it all.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Look up the main developer for the mri scanning machine. His two macroevolutionist partners got Nobel Prizes, while he didn't. Furthermore, look at the macroevolutionist's side in any number of crevolists. There is a lot of disparaging comments for the Creationists (yes, there are some for the macroevolutionists, too, but count; they're much less). You'd figure that if laymen Creationists are mocked by laymen macroevolutionists then scientist Creationists are mocked by scientist macroevolutionists (there is already some of that on FR). A scientist who acknowledges Creationism would probably be insulted or at least alienated from his macroevolutionist peers, just as Creationist freepers are derided as being ignorant nutcases by their macroevolutionist peers.