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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.

Francis Collins

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
As you kind of get over the anxiety about [science and evolution], it actually adds to your sense of awe about this amazing universe that we live in, it doesn’t subtract from it at all.
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Add Anxiety Science
I think God appreciates that we appreciate his creation.
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Appreciate Creation Thinking
Science’s tools will never prove or disprove God’s existence.
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Existence Prove Tools
One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.
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Iron Order Views
What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?
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Book Powerful Science
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.
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Country Dumb Fellowship Person
Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool – and how important – their work really is.
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Comfort Important Venture
God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.
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Mathematician Physicist
By investigating God’s majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.
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Creation Majestic Mean Science
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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Believe Law Real
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.
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Feelings Reassurance Reassuring
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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Atheist God Life Rational

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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