Itsahoot...I have to agree with Doctor Stochastic, that your last paragraph in your post #48 does NOT represent the view of Francis Collins....
I myself went to the link your provided in your post #129, and from there I quote Collins who says..."“I see God’s hand at work through the mechanism of evolution. If God chose to create human beings in his image and decided that the mechanism of evolution was an elegant way to accomplish that goal, who are we to say that is not the way,” he says."
In other words, Collins himself, by his own words, never says he supports Intelligent Design...in fact, he says he supports evolution...there is no other way to read this quote...
Another quote from the article that you linked to reads, "Among Collins most controversial beliefs is that of 'theistic evolution', which claims natural selection is the tool that God chose to create man. In his version of the theory, he argues that man will not evolve further"
Again, Collins asserts his support of evolution...
How you arrived at the conclusion that Collins supports Intelligent Design, is something I wonder about...your own links to that article show just the opposite...that Collins was an atheist until he was 27, and then after that, due to various experiences, he came to a belief in God...but nowhere in this article, does it ever say that he believes in Intelligent Design...your own linked article, shows that Collins supports evolution, proven by his own words...
The same way the people in post 118 arrived at the conclusion that they can dictate policy to God.