Fri Feb 4, 2022 – 3:35 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – Throughout the national debate over the federal government’s response to COVID-19, advocates of masking and new vaccines have benefited from a chorus of prominent evangelical figures making the case that compliance with federal recommendations was not only prudent, but a moral imperative under Biblical principles.
That chorus, as detailed in a report this week by the Daily Wire’s Megan Basham, appears to have been largely the result of outreach efforts by former National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Francis Collins.
Previously the head of the Human Genome Project, for years Collins was widely respected as a proponent for the compatibility of science and faith, which was the subject of the organization he founded in 2007, the BioLogos Foundation. But in the years following his 2009 appointment by President Barack Obama to head NIH, Collins established that his values were much more secular in practice, from the use of aborted fetal tissue and embryo-destructive research to LGBT “pride” and “allyship.”
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