As for Francis Collins, his cockamamie book is reviewed here:
Review of "The Language of God"
In essence, the book appears to support the proposition that to feel that there's a deity is to know that there's a deity.
Timothy Leary would've been pleased...
Pardon my cynicism, but I can't shake the feeling that Collins is in it for the money: the royalties, the many talk show and church and campus speaking engagements with their honoraria, and an almost inevitable award from the Templeton people.