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There is no intelligent design. Creationists are proof of it!  Bunch of idiots who would rather belive the Biblical lies, bullshit and propaganda than engage in some real study about how wonderfull our universe really is. ~~~~~~~~~~~`` Could you please explain your opinions on how and why our universe is wonderful....... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ That would be several pages of information even if I compress it down into incomprehensibility. Just...go to college and get great science teachers. I don't care to hear your opinion, I was talking to 259114. I did go to college and aced my science classes. You, on the other hand, might learn something valuable from this man who I can easily assume is more intelligent than you.... "By Dr. Francis Collins
Special to CNN
Editor's note: Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., is the director of the Human Genome Project. His most recent book is "The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief."
ROCKVILLE, Maryland (CNN) -- I am a scientist and a believer, and I find no conflict between those world views.
As the director of the Human Genome Project, I have led a consortium of scientists to read out the 3.1 billion letters of the human genome, our own DNA instruction book. As a believer, I see DNA, the information molecule of all living things, as God's language, and the elegance and complexity of our own bodies and the rest of nature as a reflection of God's plan.
I did not always embrace these perspectives. As a graduate student in physical chemistry in the 1970s, I was an atheist, finding no reason to postulate the existence of any truths outside of mathematics, physics and chemistry. But then I went to medical school, and encountered life and death issues at the bedsides of my patients. Challenged by one of those patients, who asked "What do you believe, doctor?", I began searching for answers.
I had to admit that the science I loved so much was powerless to answer questions such as "What is the meaning of life?" "Why am I here?" "Why does mathematics work, anyway?" "If the universe had a beginning, who created it?" "Why are the physical constants in the universe so finely tuned to allow the possibility of complex life forms?" "Why do humans have a moral sense?" "What happens after we die?" (Watch Francis Collins discuss how he came to believe in God )
I had always assumed that faith was based on purely emotional and irrational arguments, and was astounded to discover, initially in the writings of the Oxford scholar C.S. Lewis and subsequently from many other sources, that one could build a very strong case for the plausibility of the existence of God on purely rational grounds.
My earlier atheist's assertion that "I know there is no God" emerged as the least defensible.
As the British writer G.K. Chesterton famously remarked,
"Atheism is the most daring of all dogmas, for it is the assertion of a universal negative."" [ link to www.cnn.com]
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