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Francis Collins: No conflict between science and religion
by Scott Gilbreath ~ April 13th, 2009
Physician and geneticist Francis Collins rejected atheism for Christianity as a young man. He became world-famous as leader of the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium where he oversaw the Human Genome Sequencing Project.
In a recent interviewe with Marshall Allan of the Las Vegas Sun, he gave this response when asked about the relationship between science and religion.
When you go to ask a question you have to know what kind of question it is and therefore what is the right set of tools to answer it. If it’s a question about “Why am I here?” or “What’s the meaning of life?” or “Is there a God?” then science is not going to be useful. Either you have to decide those are questions that are irrelevant and shouldn’t be discussed or you have to step outside pure materialism and have another world view, which is a spiritual one. As long as you’re clear about the kind of questions you’re asking then there is really no conflict between having both a scientific and a spiritual world view.
Dr Collins’s common-sense view sounds positively refreshing after listening to the reductionist tripe of the so-called New Atheists.
h/t: Faith-Science News
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