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God Complex | Vanity Fair | APRIL 2025

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I t’s mid-October in San Francisco, and a crowd of 200 or so congregants—some seated in pews, others standing below cathedral windows at the back—bow their heads in prayer. Over cranberry-apple cosmos and plates of Burmese food served by black-shirted waiters, a DJ plays a thumping soundtrack of remixed worship music. This is not a church service or even a Bible study. It is, instead, an entirely new kind of event in Silicon Valley. We are here to listen in on a conversation between Dr. Francis S. Collins, the former director of the National Institutes of Health and leader of the Human Genome Project, and Garry Tan, the president and CEO of Silicon Valley’s influential start-up incubator Y Combinator, which has hatched thousands of tech companies with a combined valuation of more than $600 billion. The event is called Code & Cosmos, and its underlying thesis is that the fields of science and technology, once considered diametrically opposed to religion and spirituality, might converge

God Complex | Vanity Fair | APRIL 2025 Features God Complex Silicon Valley was once driven by a godless chase for growth. Now the new religion is religion APRIL 2025 ZOË BERNARD TAMEEM SANKARI God Complex ZOË BERNARD APRIL 2025 Subscribe View Article Pages Features God Complex Silicon Valley was once driven by a godless chase for growth. Now the new religion is religion APRIL 2025 ZOË BERNARD TAMEEM SANKARI I t’s mid-October in San Francisco, and a crowd of 200 or so congregants-some seated in pews, others standing below cathedral windows at the back-bow their heads in prayer. Over cranberry-a

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