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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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Francis Collins
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: April 14
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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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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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God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.
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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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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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I think history would say that medical research has, throughout many changes of parties, remained as one of the shining lights of bipartisan agreement, that people are concerned about health for themselves, for their families, for their constituents.
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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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[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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God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.
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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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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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[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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Science's tools will never prove or disprove God's existence.
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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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Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.
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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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