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Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.

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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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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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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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 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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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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[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 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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What does it take to get people interested, what does it take to get people engaged, what does it take to get them to give a biospecimen? What does it take to get people like Jim [Ostell] to get interested and engaged, versus someone like my mother?
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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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[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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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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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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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 think God appreciates that we appreciate his creation.
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Science's tools will never prove or disprove God's existence.
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By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.
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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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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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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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