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God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.

Francis Collins

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Francis Collins
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: April 14
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Chemist
Geneticist
Physician
Physicist
Virginia
United States
Francis S. Collins
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F. S. Collins
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Francis Sellers Collins
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I'm a pretty informal guy. I ride a Harley.
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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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I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.
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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 trained initially as a physical chemist, and then, after becoming interested in biology, I went to medical school and learned how to be a physician. So, I'm a physician scientist.
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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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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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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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Science's tools will never prove or disprove God's existence.
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By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.
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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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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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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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[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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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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I think God appreciates that we appreciate his creation.
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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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A lot of science doesn't require big ns but if you're trying to understand something about human health and you're looking at interventions that are not going to be either killing you or making you live forever - they're going to have some tweaking on the outcome - you need big numbers or you don't have enough power.
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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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God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.
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