Creation Quote by Francis S. Collins

““a discussion about the miraculous quickly devolves to an argument about whether or not one is willing to consider any possibility whatsoever of the supernatural””

Francis S. Collins

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“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…

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“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…

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“I was vaguely aware that same of those around me thought that this pairing of explorations was contradictory and I was headed over a…

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“In that context, I find theistic evolution, or BioLogos, to be by far the most scientifically consistent and spiritually satisfying of the alternatives. This…

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“At this point, godless materialists might be cheering. If humans evolved strictly by mutation and natural selection, who needs God to explain us? To…

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“Will we turn our backs on science because it is perceived as a threat to God, abandoning all the promise of advancing our understanding…

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“As the leader of the international Human Genome Project, which had labored mightily over more than a decade to reveal this DNA sequence, I…

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“...to apply scientific arguments to the question of God's existence, as if this were somehow a showstopper, is committing a category error.”

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“while the long history of religious oppression and hypocrisy is profoundly sobering, the earnest seeker must look beyond the behavior of flawed humans in…

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“What, to use Noble Laureate Wigner's classic phrase, accounts for the 'unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics'?”

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“There are many subtle variants of theistic evolution, but a typical version rests upon the following premises: The universe came into being out of…

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“Faith and reason are not, as many seem to be arguing today, mutually exclusive. They never have been. The letter to the Hebrews in…

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