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Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Science and Religion
Below are some quotes from Francis Collins, from I’ve found God, says man who cracked the genome.

On cracking the genome:
    When you have for the first time in front of you this 3.1 billion-letter instruction book that conveys all kinds of information and all kinds of mystery about humankind, you can’t survey that going through page after page without a sense of awe. I can’t help but look at those pages and have a vague sense that this is giving me a glimpse of God’s mind.
On "theistic evolution" and his belief that man will not evolve further:
    I see God’s hand at work through the mechanism of evolution. If God chose to create human beings in his image and decided that the mechanism of evolution was an elegant way to accomplish that goal, who are we to say that is not the way.

    Scientifically, the forces of evolution by natural selection have been profoundly affected for humankind by the changes in culture and environment and the expansion of the human species to 6 billion members. So what you see is pretty much what you get.
[I wonder if "theistic evolution" can be reconciled with Special Creation.]

Also, he "is convinced that miracles are real."

[link via Seattle Catholic]