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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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Francis Collins
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: April 14
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Virginia
United States
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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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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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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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All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.
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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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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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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 believe in the literal rising of the body of Christ. It's the cornerstone of my Christian faith.
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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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God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.
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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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