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Science's tools will never prove or disprove God's existence.
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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I think God appreciates that we appreciate his creation.
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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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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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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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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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I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.
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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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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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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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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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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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God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.
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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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What wakes me up at night is this next generation and what's happening to them. And they're invariably excited about the science that they're doing, but invariably anxious about where there's a future.
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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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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.
Francis Collins
I'm a pretty informal guy. I ride a Harley.
Francis Collins
All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.
Francis Collins
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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