But don't expect to see BioLogos commenting on the 2012 Republican primary, or making a push for Bible study in public schools. The goal of the organization is not to thrust religion upon the secular masses, but to aid evangelical Christians reconciling their spirituality with the natural world of science.

With his background, Falk is a poster boy for BioLogos. During his youth, Falk became increasingly skeptical of the Bible as the literal word of God. "By the time I was 11, I was reading the New Testament, where it speaks in terms of the angels coming from the four corners of the Earth," he recalls. "It was almost too good to be true. I remember saying to someone 'angels came from the four corners from the Earth. Is the Bible implying it was flat?' I was living in two worlds: the Christian world, I world I wanted to live in and was beautiful, and this other world where things just didn't seem right."

Falk graduated from Simon Fraser University in 1968 with a B.A. in biology. As an undergraduate, he took courses in anthropology, genetics, physics, biology, and math. As his appetite for science grew, so did his skepticism with his faith.

"When I went into university, the doubts weren't that bad," Falk says. "Through my childhood years, I had thought to myself 'the world is so beautiful, how could it have happened by chance?' I believed so strongly that there had to be a God. But as time went by, through grad school and all, evolution helped me lose my faith. I walked away from Christianity."

BioLogos started out as a website for people like Falk, a resource for young scientists who grew up in evangelical or conservative Christian homes. The foundation's website serves as the primary forum for Christian scientists, and the group hosts a series of workshops in New York where dozens of doctors, theologians, scholars, and scientists have an open dialogue on pressing questions of science and faith.

BioLogos also runs professional development programs for private Christian high schools, targeting evangelical students with a passion for science. Falk emphasizes that, despite a few applications from public schools, BioLogos has no primary focus or influence on the public education system. "Although," he adds,"we do want Christian teachers in public schools to engage with us on issues of science and religion."

"We're not involved in political campaigns, or policy, or anything like that," says Falk. "For us, it's a grassroots movement. We want to be able to help people who have struggled with this topic, people who are internally conflicted with faith and scientific data."

BioLogos has drawn criticism from secular and religious organizations, from creationists and atheists alike. Ken Ham, a young-Earth creationist and advocate for the literal interpretation of Genesis, declared that "it is compromisers like [Francis] Collins who cause people to doubt and disbelieve the Bible -- causing them to walk away from the church." Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological seminary, says that BioLogos "wants to discredit evangelical objections to evolution and to convince the evangelical public that an acceptance of evolution is a means of furthering the gospel." University of Chicago biologist Jerry Coyne called the endeavor "the latest forcible endeavor to marry science and faith."