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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.
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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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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[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 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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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 think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.
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There are good reasons to believe in God, including the existence of mathematical principles and order in creation. They are positive reasons, based on knowledge, rather than default assumptions based on a temporary lack of knowledge.
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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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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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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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What wakes me up at night is this next generation and what's happening to them. And they're invariably excited about the science that they're doing, but invariably anxious about where there's a future.
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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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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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Science's tools will never prove or disprove God's existence.
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What faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head?
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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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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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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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Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.
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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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