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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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Are we using science in ways that it wasn't intended to, in which case we should be a little careful, or are we using faith in ways that faith wasn't really designed for? There are certain questions that are better answered by one approach than the other, and if you start mixing that up, then you end up in ... conflict.
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By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.
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The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. He can be worshipped in the cathedral or in the laboratory. His creation is majestic, awesome, intricate, and beautiful.
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I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.
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Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.
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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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We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.
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All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.
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[The tests agreed] that I was at higher risk than the average person for Type 2 diabetes, which is what my lab works on. In fact, some of the things they were testing for were variants that we had discovered.
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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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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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If God is real, and I believe he is, then he is outside of nature. He is, therefore, not limited by the laws of nature in the way that we are.
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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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I'm a pretty informal guy. I ride a Harley.
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So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.
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I believe in the literal rising of the body of Christ. It's the cornerstone of my Christian faith.
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It's interesting when you read the life of Christ how much of his time he spent healing the sick. There must have been a reason for that - he was modelling for us what it is we are intended to do by following his path.
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Prayer is, for me, not an opportunity to ask God to do stuff for me. Prayer is an opportunity to open myself, to try and understand his will, and oftentimes it's a prayer of thanksgiving, and sometimes it's a prayer of supplication, and sometimes it is just worship.
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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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