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Francis Collins

Francis Collins's Slugfester profile includes score averages, opponents faced, topic performance, and linked debate scorecards.

Background

About Francis Collins

Francis Collins is a physician-geneticist who led the National Institutes of Health and the international Human Genome Project. His public work also addresses the relationship between scientific investigation and religious belief.

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Published debate record

2 eligible one-on-one scorecards. Average published score: 77.5/100. Scores describe these debates, not the person's overall ability or worth.

Francis Collins vs Alex O'Connor: Does God Exist? · 2024

Collins builds a cumulative Christian case from fine-tuning, morality, resurrection, revelation, and beauty, while answering suffering through orderly creation and noncoercive evidence.

Francis Collins: 79 · Alex O'Connor: 88. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.

Science and Belief in God: Francis Collins vs. Richard Dawkins · 2022

Collins preserves rational space through compatibility and cumulative signposts, but Dawkins wins by stronger natural explanations and sharper challenges concerning redundancy, suffering, and selective miracles.

Francis Collins: 76 · Richard Dawkins: 83. Scores assess the reasoning in this debate.