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God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.
Francis Collins
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Francis Collins
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: April 14
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I had the analysis of a million or so SNPs [single nucleotide polymorphisms] just to see what was there. That's partly because I was writing a book about DNA and personalized medicine and I thought it would be a little bit disingenuous to talk about what could be done without actually having the experiment done on yourself.
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God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.
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When I discover something about the human genome, I experience a sense of awe at the mystery of life, and say to myself, 'Wow, only God knew before.' It is a profoundly beautiful and moving sensation, which helps me appreciate God and makes science even more rewarding for me.
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Science's tools will never prove or disprove God's existence.
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We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.
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In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don't expect to see one.
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When does life begin? When does the soul enter? That's a religious question. Science is not going to be able to help with that.
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We are still working with an incomplete compass. The time is right to bring the full power of genomics to bear on the problem of cancer.
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By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.
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I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.
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A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run.
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I think God appreciates that we appreciate his creation.
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Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.
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[Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all of science. I believe that reading our blueprints, cataloguing our own instruction book, will be judged by history as more significant than even splitting the atom or going to the moon.
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If God made the natural laws, why could he not violate them when it was a particularly significant moment for him to do so? And if you accept the idea that Christ was also divine, which I do, then his Resurrection is not in itself a great logical leap.
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Science is... a powerful way, indeed - to study the natural world. Science is not particularly effective... in making commentary about the supernatural world. Both worlds, for me, are quite real and quite important. They are investigated in different ways. They coexist. They illuminate each other.
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I think history would say that medical research has, throughout many changes of parties, remained as one of the shining lights of bipartisan agreement, that people are concerned about health for themselves, for their families, for their constituents.
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As our closest relatives, they (chimpanzees) tell us special things about what it means to be a primate and, ultimately, what it means to be a human at the DNA level.
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There are good reasons to believe in God, including the existence of mathematical principles and order in creation. They are positive reasons, based on knowledge, rather than default assumptions based on a temporary lack of knowledge.
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