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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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We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.
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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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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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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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By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.
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What faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head?
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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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[Decoding the human genome sequence] is the most significant undertaking that we have mounted so far in an organized way in all of science. I believe that reading our blueprints, cataloguing our own instruction book, will be judged by history as more significant than even splitting the atom or going to the moon.
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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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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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God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.
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I think God appreciates that we appreciate his creation.
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Science's tools will never prove or disprove God's existence.
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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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