DNA CONVINCES TOP SCIENTIST OF GOD
Francis S. Collins, MD, Ph.D.,Director of the Human Genome Project. "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 #39;s language, and the elegance and complexity of our own bodies and the rest of nature as a reflection of God #39;s plan. 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 ...From:POTTERS HOUSE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP CHRISTCHURCHViews:3 0ratingsTime:03:46More inTravel Events
Read the original post:
DNA CONVINCES TOP SCIENTIST OF GOD - Video
