Posted on 06/11/2006 9:51:12 PM PDT by Marius3188
THE scientist who led the team that cracked the human genome is to publish a book explaining why he now believes in the existence of God and is convinced that miracles are real.
Francis Collins, the director of the US National Human Genome Research Institute, claims there is a rational basis for a creator and that scientific discoveries bring man “closer to God”.
His book, The Language of God, to be published in September, will reopen the age-old debate about the relationship between science and faith. “One of the great tragedies of our time is this impression that has been created that science and religion have to be at war,” said Collins, 56.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
So in both cases, our information is anecdotal.
For sure. Today, he'd have been aborted and we'd have missed his genius.
Why not? The MSM does it all the time. Let the listener beware.
Carolyn
And my desk needs an organizer.
Mine is first hand.
I've heard of two of them.
One runs the Gaggon Dragon and the other the Break Wind restaurants.
With a degree from Cal Tech, Sandage is one of America's preeminent cosmologists. A protégé of Edwin Hubble, Sandage has won many honors for his work, including the Craaford Prize from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, astronomy's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Sandage told a 1985 conference on science and religion that the Big Bang was a supernatural event that cannot be explained within the realm of physics as we know it, and that science had taken us to the First Event, but it cannot take us further to the First Cause. The sudden emergence of matter, space, time, and energy pointed, Sandage said, to the need for some kind of transcendence. Sandage told Newsweek magazine in 1998 that "It was my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world is much more complicated than can be explained by science. It was only through the supernatural that I can understand the mystery of existence."
In an article published in 2000, Sandage wrote, “The world is too complicated in all its parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life with all its order in each of its organisms is simply too well put together. Each part of a living thing depends on all its other parts to function. How does each part know? How is each part specified at conception? The more one learns of biochemistry the ore unbelievable it becomes unless there is some type of organizing principle – an architect for believers, a mystery to be solved by science (even as to “why”) sometime in the indefinite future for materialist reductionists.”
If the MSM jumped off a bridge would you do it too?
The point is that if a claim is not backed by evidence it is open to criticism. If it has been repeated ad nauseam in spite of corrections, it needs to be exposed for what it is. That is what RWP did.
Well-said. We're probably about ten years away from the atheistic Darwinists isolating themselves within the science community into their own little camp of skepticism. Too many reputable scientists in other disciplines -- microbiology, cosmology, physics, information science -- are becoming open to the idea of a Creator behind all that they see, in the tradition of the likes of Isaac Newton, Blaise Pascal, Michael Farraday, Johannes Kepler, and most scientific pioneers throughout the history of Western Civilization.
The article says he believes in theistic evolution. What you described is deistic evolution.
Because to insist that the infinite, eternal God who created, permeates, and is omnipresent in this vast universe that He created and controls must have a form that Man can comprehend diminishes God to fit within man's finite mind.
Because there is no scriptural justification to do so.
Because, deep down, such assumptions may well be rooted in hubris. Consider the admonition in Romans 12:3
"For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith."
Romans 12:3 (KJV)
> What you described is deistic evolution.
I just quoted from another online article, which includes quotes from Collins his own self. See: http://www.beliefnet.com/story/30/story_3048_1.html
As to the difference between theistic and deistic evolution... not sure there's enough difference to make a difference. Both involve some god or other setting up the process and letting the natural world take it's course. I suppose "theistic" could involve this god getting in a snit and dropping the occaisional asteroid on purpose, but even so the resultant evolution is a natural process.
"For sure. Today, he'd have been aborted and we'd have missed his genius."
Why? He didn't come down with ALS until he was an adult.
Information that means something - isn't that what it is?
How often does information randomly collide into sequences that mean something?
I would think it is unwarranted to assume there wouldn't be a coder.
bump
Carolyn
You're persistant. I'll give you that.
Solar scriptura?
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