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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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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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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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I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.
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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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I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.
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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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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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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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I'm a pretty informal guy. I ride a Harley.
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Science's tools will never prove or disprove God's existence.
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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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Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.
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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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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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What faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head?
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C.S. Lewis had a big influence on me in this spiritual realm - this sort of sense of longing. A longing for a knowledge that is just outside of our reach, a knowledge for a spiritual connection.
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What does it take to get people interested, what does it take to get people engaged, what does it take to get them to give a biospecimen? What does it take to get people like Jim [Ostell] to get interested and engaged, versus someone like my mother?
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