“while the long history of religious oppression and hypocrisy is profoundly sobering, the earnest seeker must look beyond the behavior of flawed humans in order to find the truth. Would you condemn an oak tree because its timbers had been… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
“Science is progressive and self-correcting: no significantly erroneous conclusions or false hypotheses can be sustained for long, as newer observations will ultimately knock down… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
“Yeah, it’s true we’re all dealt a set of cards. But it’s also true that it’s up to us to figure out how to… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
“I was vaguely aware that same of those around me thought that this pairing of explorations was contradictory and I was headed over a… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
“In that context, I find theistic evolution, or BioLogos, to be by far the most scientifically consistent and spiritually satisfying of the alternatives. This… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
“At this point, godless materialists might be cheering. If humans evolved strictly by mutation and natural selection, who needs God to explain us? To… — Francis s. Collins Copy Share Image
“Will we turn our backs on science because it is perceived as a threat to God, abandoning all the promise of advancing our understanding… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
“As the leader of the international Human Genome Project, which had labored mightily over more than a decade to reveal this DNA sequence, I… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
“...to apply scientific arguments to the question of God's existence, as if this were somehow a showstopper, is committing a category error.” — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
“while the long history of religious oppression and hypocrisy is profoundly sobering, the earnest seeker must look beyond the behavior of flawed humans in… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
“What, to use Noble Laureate Wigner's classic phrase, accounts for the 'unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics'?” — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
“There are many subtle variants of theistic evolution, but a typical version rests upon the following premises: The universe came into being out of… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
“Faith and reason are not, as many seem to be arguing today, mutually exclusive. They never have been. The letter to the Hebrews in… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
“In this modern era of cosmology, evolution, and the human genome, is there still the possibility of a richly satisfying harmony between the scientific… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
“...let us recognize that a large fraction of our suffering and that of our fellow human beings is brought about by what we do… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
“There were long stretches of DNA in between genes that didn't seem to be doing very much; some even referred to these as "junk… — Francis S. Collins Copy Share Image
