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.
FRANCIS COLLINSGod 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.
More Francis Collins Quotes
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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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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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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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I think God appreciates that we appreciate his creation.
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What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?
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By investigating God’s majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.
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God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.
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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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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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Science’s tools will never prove or disprove God’s existence.
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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.
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Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool – and how important – their work really is.
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