Ken Miller has sent a letter to The New York Times in response to Sam Harris‘ recent op-ed on Francis Collins and his faith:

Sam Harris’s article attacking Dr. Francis S. Collins, President Obama’s nominee to be the director of the National Institutes of Health, demonstrates nothing so much as Mr. Harris’s own deeply held prejudices against religion.
Dr. Collins’s sin, despite credentials Mr. Harris calls “impeccable,” is that he is a Christian. Mr. Harris is not alone in holding this view. A leading science blogger, also attacking Dr. Collins, demonstrated his own commitment to reasoned dialogue by calling the scientist a “clown” and a “flaming idjit.” When reason has such defenders, Heaven help us.
The disconnect from reality in such attacks is striking. Dr. Collins’s visionary work on cystic fibrosis set the stage for the Human Genome Project, which he then led to amagnificent conclusion—not just ahead of time and under budget, but as a model for cutting-edge collaborative research.
The suspicion that Dr. Collins’s faith would lead him to suppress research is sharply contradicted by his administration of the genome project and the profound scientific curiosity that has marked his entire career.
Francis Collins is a remarkable scientist and a visionary administrator.

• TWITTER BUZZ: @travischapman Sam Harris NYT editorial makes some good points re: Collins, but he shoots himself in the foot w/ the militant atheism
  
• TWITTER BUZZ: @drsarahullman When science is guided by religion and not science, science loses.
• TWITTER BUZZ: @davejarvis Sam Harris advocates limits on pursuit of truth
• TWITTER BUZZ: @esc1144 Sam Harris makes a good case against Dr. Francis Collins’ appointment to head the NIH.