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By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.

Francis Collins

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Francis Collins
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: April 14
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United States
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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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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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I believe in the literal rising of the body of Christ. It's the cornerstone of my Christian faith.
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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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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 faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head?
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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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I think God appreciates that we appreciate his creation.
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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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I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.
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Science's tools will never prove or disprove God's existence.
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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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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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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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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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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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C.S. Lewis had a big influence on me in this spiritual realm - this sort of sense of longing. A longing for a knowledge that is just outside of our reach, a knowledge for a spiritual connection.
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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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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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