Francis Collins statement

Saw this on Hugh Hewitt's blog (http://www.hughhewitt.com/) today...

 From the Times of London's profile of Francis Collins, the director of
the US National Human Genome Research Institute:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2220484,00.html

     For Collins, unravelling the human genome did not create a conflict
in his mind. Instead, it allowed him to “glimpse at the workings of God”.

     “When you make a breakthrough it is a moment of scientific
exhilaration because you have been on this search and seem to have found
it,” he said. “But it is also a moment where I at least feel closeness
to the creator in the sense of having now perceived something that no
human knew before but God knew all along.

     “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.”

     Collins joins a line of scientists whose research deepened their
belief in God. Isaac Newton, whose discovery of the laws of gravity
reshaped our understanding of the universe, said: “This most beautiful
system could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and
powerful being.”

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