Obama's nominee for NIH head an outspoken Evangelical

As one who criticizes President Obama on most issues, I want to make sure I give him credit where it is due. I was impressed that he would nominate an outspoken Evangelical Dr. Francis Collins to lead the National Institutes of Health. Collins, in a recent presentation at UC Berkley presented the following:

• Slide 1: “Almighty God, who is not limited in space or time, created a universe 13.7 billion years ago with its parameters precisely tuned to allow the development of complexity over long periods of time.”
• Slide 2: “God’s plan included the mechanism of evolution to create the marvelous diversity of living things on our planet. Most especially, that creative plan included human beings.”
• Slide 3: “After evolution had prepared a sufficiently advanced ‘house’ (the human brain), God gifted humanity with the knowledge of good and evil (the moral law), with free will, and with an immortal soul.”
• Slide 4: “We humans used our free will to break the moral law, leading to our estrangement from God. For Christians, Jesus is the solution to that estrangement.”
• Slide 5: “If the moral law is just a side effect of evolution, then there is no such thing as good or evil. It’s all an illusion. We’ve been hoodwinked. Are any of us, especially the strong atheists, really prepared to live our lives within that worldview?”

I'm not exactly sure what NIH does, and perhaps the nomination is done just to make sure that the Evangelicals are accounted for, but still - I was impressed that Collins would be appointed.

Here is a negative opinion of his nomination from the New York Times.