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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.
Francis Collins
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Francis Collins
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: April 14
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Virginia
United States
Francis S. Collins
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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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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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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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[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 believe in the literal rising of the body of Christ. It's the cornerstone of my Christian faith.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.
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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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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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