{"id":9255,"date":"2025-12-20T23:02:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/20\/francis-collins-marc-siegel-interview-transcript\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T23:02:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:02:46","slug":"francis-collins-marc-siegel-interview-transcript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/20\/francis-collins-marc-siegel-interview-transcript\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Francis Collins: \u2018I think of science as glimpsing God\u2019s mind\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Below is a lightly edited, AI-generated transcript of the \u201cFirst Opinion Podcast\u201d interview with Marc Siegel and Francis Collins. Be sure to sign up for the weekly \u201cFirst Opinion Podcast\u201d on\u00a0<\/em>Apple Podcasts<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Spotify<\/em><\/a>, or wherever you get your podcasts. Get alerts about each new episode by signing up for the \u201cFirst Opinion Podcast\u201d newsletter<\/a>. And don\u2019t forget to sign up for the\u00a0<\/em>First Opinion newsletter<\/em><\/a>, delivered every Sunday.<\/em><\/p>\n

Torie Bosch:<\/strong> Many see religion and science as opposing forces in the world. But for Marc Siegel and Francis Collins, the two are deeply entwined, with God helping guide scientists to heal. In particular, Siegel and Collins are troubled by religious communities that are increasingly skeptical of vaccines. The two of them want to help the faithful see vaccines as a miracle of God instead.<\/p>\n

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Opinion: Francis Collins: \u2018I think of science as glimpsing God\u2019s mind\u2019 Below is a lightly edited, AI-generated transcript of the \u201cFirst Opinion Podcast\u201d interview with Marc Siegel and Francis Collins. Be sure to sign up for the weekly \u201cFirst Opinion Podcast\u201d on\u00a0Apple Podcasts,\u00a0Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Get alerts about each new episode […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2143,3951,2219],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-9255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-opinion","category-first-opinion-podcast","category-scientists","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}