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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 Collins

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

Believe Law Real
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.
FRANCIS COLLINS

Country Dumb Fellowship Person
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.
FRANCIS COLLINS

Feelings Reassurance Reassuring
Science’s tools will never prove or disprove God’s existence.
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Existence Prove Tools
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.
FRANCIS COLLINS

Atheist God Life Rational
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.
FRANCIS COLLINS

Add Anxiety Science
Scientists must venture outside their comfort zones to show the public how cool – and how important – their work really is.
FRANCIS COLLINS

Comfort Important Venture
One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.
FRANCIS COLLINS

Iron Order Views
What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?
FRANCIS COLLINS

Book Powerful Science
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 COLLINS

DNA Doubt Records
I think God appreciates that we appreciate his creation.
FRANCIS COLLINS

Appreciate Creation Thinking
By investigating God’s majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.
FRANCIS COLLINS

Creation Majestic Mean Science
God is an awesome mathematician and physicist.
FRANCIS COLLINS

Mathematician Physicist

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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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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