Francis Collins and NIH

Francis Collins, well known scientist who also is a well known Christian is about to take over the Nat. Inst. of Health. Some are concerned his Christianity may override his science inclinations and affect how research gets funded - a main function of the NIH. What if he decides that stem cell research is not necessary? Or that God designed the brain so we don't need to look into it too much?

Is he the right guy to keep the public informed about the cutting edge of US research?
See Steven Pinker's opinion - a brain researcher.
It seems awfully hard to keep church and state separate.

Two links that are really worth following.

This one is to some cartoons of Jesus and Mo(hammed). I know, more cartoons.

This one is to a scientist, author and blogger on his excellent book on evolution - being a fact, not a theory.

Kind of beating a dead horse as those who see this and don't have any argument w/ science of evolution don't need it, and those who need it won't be looking at this post and certainly won't read the book.