With funding from the John Templeton Foundation, Francis Collins has launched a new foundation called BioLogos, which "promotes the search for truth in both the natural and spiritual realms, and seeks to harmonize these different perspectives." Collins hopes to show Christians, particularly evangelicals, that faith and science are compatible. For example, he tells Time magazine that Christians should consider the book of Genesis "not as a book about science but about the nature of God and the nature of humans. Evolution gives us the 'how,' but we need the Bible to understand the 'why' of our creation." The website answers questions ranging from "Can scientific and scriptural truth be reconciled?" to "Was there death before the Fall?"
Jonathan Eisen says he looked at the BioLogos website with "some horror." "Science (and medicine) should be about, well, science. And religion can be about whatever it wants to be. … But merging the two together into one hybrid such as Christian Science and Creation Science? Not for me," he writes. Larry Moran and PZ Myers also weigh in.