In a recent study funded by the John Templeton Foundation and published in the journal Public Understanding of Science, researchers found:
Zoologist Richard Dawkins’s [author of The God Delusion] influence as a public intellectual . . . does not persuade new readers that science and religion are in conflict, [while] . . . biologist Francis Collins [author of The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief] . . . could persuade audiences that science and faith can be compatible. (Fahy 2015, 5)