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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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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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I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.
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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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I'm a pretty informal guy. I ride a Harley.
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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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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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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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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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God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.
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By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.
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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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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 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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What faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head?
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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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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 think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.
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