Francis Collins
Francis Collins
Francis Sellers Collinsis an American physician-geneticist noted for his discoveries of disease genes and his leadership of the Human Genome Project. He is director of the National Institutes of Healthin Bethesda, Maryland, USA...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth14 April 1950
CountryUnited States of America
data decision scientist
As a scientist, you're not supposed to make decisions without the data.
mathematician physicist
God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.
thinking people study
I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.
guy harley
I'm a pretty informal guy. I ride a Harley.
christian sunday practice
I'm a serious Christian. I take my faith seriously. I try to practice it every day of the week, not just on Sunday.
feelings reassurance reassuring
I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me.
speaks-out speak loud
I've never heard God speak out loud to me. That's not an experience I have had.
real believe law
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.
healing physicians miraculous
In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don't expect to see one.
way becoming leap-of-faith
Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.
dumb fellowship way
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 it? It was an incredibly elegant way to do it.
nerves aviation airmen
The airman must possess absolutely untroubled nerves.
mean thinking evil
I'm enormously interested to see where neuroscience can take us in understanding these complexities of the human brain and how it works, but I do think there may be limits in terms of what science can tell us about what does good and evil mean anyway, and what are those concepts about?
intelligent design natural
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.