Francis Collins Quotes

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• I took biology in high school and didn't like it at all. It was focused on memorization. ... I didn't appreciate that biology also had…
• The problem [with genetic research] is, we're just starting down this path, feeling our way in the dark. We have a small lantern in the…
• [Locating, from scratch, the gene related to a disease is like] trying to find a burned-out light bulb in a house located somewhere between the…
• [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…
• 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,…
• God decided to create a species with whom he could have fellowship. Who are we to say that evolution was a dumb way to do…
• 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…
• The airman must possess absolutely untroubled nerves.
• By investigating God's majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.
• 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…
• God is most certainly not threatened by science; He made it all possible.
• By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• All illnesses have some heredity contribution. It's been said that genetics loads the gun and environment pulls the trigger.
• What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?
• 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…
• People who are in a position of finding out that they're at risk for some illness, whether it's breast cancer, or heart disease, are afraid…

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