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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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Francis Collins
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: April 14
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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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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 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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I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.
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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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What faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head?
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Science's tools will never prove or disprove God's existence.
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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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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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We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.
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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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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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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 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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[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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