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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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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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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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What faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head?
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A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run.
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I'm a pretty informal guy. I ride a Harley.
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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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God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.
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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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Science's tools will never prove or disprove God's existence.
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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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