{"id":1332,"date":"2013-05-13T06:30:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T13:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2013-04-30T08:19:10","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T15:19:10","slug":"a-modern-home-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/13\/a-modern-home-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"A Modern Famous Home Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Francis Collins<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebestcolleges.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/francis-collins.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"francis-collins\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebestcolleges.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/francis-collins.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Francis Collins is best known for\u00a0his leadership of the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #888888;\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Human Genome Project<\/span><\/span><\/span>, which completed a genetic map of the entire human genome in 2003. Collins grew up on a farm in rural\u00a0Virginia, where he was home schooled until the sixth grade.\u00a0An outspoken\u00a0Evangelical Christian, Collins published\u00a0<em>The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief<\/em>\u00a0in 2006,<em>\u00a0<\/em>arguing for the compatibility of science and\u00a0Christian faith.\u00a0In 2007 Collins formed the\u00a0BioLogos Foundation to\u00a0\u201dcontribute to the public voice that represents the harmony of science and faith.\u201d\u00a0President Barack Obama\u00a0nominated\u00a0Collins to the position of Director of the National Institutes of Health in 2009. Collins accepted the nomination and was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francis Collins Francis Collins is best known for\u00a0his leadership of the\u00a0Human Genome Project, which completed a genetic map of the entire human genome in 2003. Collins grew up on a farm in rural\u00a0Virginia, where he was home schooled until the sixth grade.\u00a0An outspoken\u00a0Evangelical Christian, Collins published\u00a0The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief\u00a0in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1434,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions\/1434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}