Francis Collins Quotes

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• 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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  Beautiful, Majestic, Creation

  "The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief". Book by Francis Collins, 2006.

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• I believe God did intend, in giving us intelligence, to give us the opportunity to investigate and appreciate the wonders of His creation. He is not threatened by our scientific adventures.

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  Believe, Adventure, Opportunity

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• God is most certainly not threatened by science; He made it all possible.

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  Made, Made It, Threatened

  Francis Collins (2008). “The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• There are 15 constants- the gravitational constant, various constants about the strong and weak nuclear force, etc.- that have precise values. If any one of those constants was off by even one part in a million, or in some cases, by one part in a million million, the universe could not have actually come to the point where we see it. Matter would not have been able to coalesce, there would have been no galaxy, stars, planets or people

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  Strong, Stars, People

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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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  Believe, Order, Atheism

  Francis Collins (2008). “The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.

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  Mean, Creation Science, Majestic

  "Collins: Why this scientist believes in God". edition.cnn.com. April 6, 2007.

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• Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record, the study of DNA provides the strongest possible proof of our relatedness to all other living things.

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  Dna, Doubt, Records

  "Collins: Why This Scientist Believes in God" by Francis Collins, edition.cnn.com. April 06, 2007.

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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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  Beautiful, Moving, Appreciate

  "Reconciling Science and Religion". "Awake!" magazine, June 8, 2002.

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• As an atheist evolving to agnosticism, and seeking answers to whether or not belief in God is potentially rational, my life was turned upside down 35 years ago by reading C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity.

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  Life, God, Atheist

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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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  Powerful, Real, Religion

  "Religion and Ethics" with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. June 16, 2000.

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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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  Opposites, Reason, Revelations

  "God vs. Science". Debate between Dawkins and Collins, www.time.com. November 5, 2006.

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• Evolution, as a mechanism, can be and must be true. But that says nothing about the nature of its author. For those who believe in God, there are reasons now to be more in awe, not less.

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  Believe, Evolution, Reason

  Francis Collins (2008). “The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• The tragedy of young-earth creationism is that it takes a relatively recent and extreme view of Genesis, applies to it an unjustified scientific gloss, and then asks sincere and well-meaning seekers to swallow this whole, despite the massive discordance with decades of scientific evidence from multiple disciplines. Is it any wonder that many sadly turn away from faith concluding that they cannot believe in a God who asks for an abandonment of logic and reason?

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  Believe, Views, Discipline

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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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  Prayer, Opportunity, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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  Ideas, Law, Resurrection

  Source: inters.org

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• Science's tools will never prove or disprove God's existence.

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  Tools, Existence, Prove

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• Addressing the conclusions of The God Delusion point by point with the devastating insight of a molecular biologist turned theologian, Alister McGrath dismantles the argument that science should lead to atheism, and demonstrates instead that Dawkins has abandoned his much-cherished rationality to embrace an embittered manifesto of dogmatic atheist fundamentalism.

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  Atheist, Atheism, Argument

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• God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.

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  Mathematician, Physicist

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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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  Real, Believe, Law

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• To get our universe, with all of its potential for complexities or any kind of potential for any kind of life-form, everything has to be precisely defined on this knife edge of improbability. [Y]ou have to see the hands of a creator who set the parameters to be just so because the creator was interested in something a little more complicated than random particles.

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  Hands, Knives, Littles

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• By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy

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  Religious, Scientific Method, Logical

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• The best diet is the one that can be sustained over the long term, combined with other healthful lifestyle behaviors.

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  Long, Lifestyle, Behavior

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• Proponents of intelligent design don't accept that some of the very complex nanomachines that we have inside ourselves could have come about solely on the basis of natural selection.

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  Intelligent, Design, Natural

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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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  Christian, Believe, Rising

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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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  Faith, Mixing, Littles

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