The central struggle was between the publicly funded international Human Genome Project, led by Francis Collins, a distinguished scientist and devout Christian, which pursued a slow-and-steady approach to sequencing until Celera, a private company led by Craig Venter, appeared on the scene and boldly claimed that its revolutionary new technique, whole-genome shot-gun sequencing, could do the job in less than half the time.

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Mechanical watches still rely on tiny spirals, invented by the Dutch scientist Christian Huygens in 1675, which, at least theoretically, provide perfectly isochronic oscillations.

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Would we feel the same way about, say, a successful Christian Scientist CEO who decides not to offer any health insurance to his employees?

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