The National Institutes of Health funds research on the biology of morality in the human brain, as well as the evolution of  human morality by comparing humans to other primates. Francis Collins, who has been nominated to head NIH, has repeatedly criticized this sort of research–and has used its failure as evidence for the existence of God. In 2008, for example, he said, “I think human altruism can be seen as one of strongest signposts to the existence of a personal God. I can see no fully satisfactory explanation for it coming from biology.”

I’d be curious to know if Collins thinks NIH shouldn’t have funded this research in the past, and if he would cut