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I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.
Francis Collins
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Francis Collins
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: April 14
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Virginia
United States
Francis S. Collins
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By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Science's tools will never prove or disprove God's existence.
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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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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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