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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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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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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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I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.
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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'm a pretty informal guy. I ride a Harley.
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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 think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.
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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 believe in the literal rising of the body of Christ. It's the cornerstone of my Christian faith.
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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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What faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head?
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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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God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.
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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.
Francis Collins
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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By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.
Francis Collins
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.
Francis Collins
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.
Francis Collins
Science is... a powerful way, indeed - to study the natural world. Science is not particularly effective... in making commentary about the supernatural world. Both worlds, for me, are quite real and quite important. They are investigated in different ways. They coexist. They illuminate each other.
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