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21 " Today, we have discovered that everyone is born with dozens of genetic glitches. There are no perfect human specimens. But not all our glitches are the same, so one treatment often does not fit all sufferers of a given disease. "
― Francis S. Collins , The Language of Life: DNA and the Revolution in Personalized Medicine
22 " It is the awareness of right and wrong, along with the development of language, awareness of self, and the ability to imagine the future, to which scientists generally refer when trying to enumerate the special qualities of Homo sapiens "
― Francis S. Collins
23 " When we proclaim that someone is subhuman, we not only remove for them the possibility of change and repentance, we also remove from them moral responsibility. "
― Francis S. Collins , Belief: Readings on the Reason for Faith
24 " Faith and reason are not, as many seem to be arguing today, mutually exclusive. They never have been. The letter to the Hebrews in the New Testament defines faith as 'the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of the things not seen. "
25 " What, to use Noble Laureate Wigner's classic phrase, accounts for the 'unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics'? "
26 " But there is, alas, no doubt that we are becoming a vocabulary-deprived nation—nay, planet. Words have been dropping off all through this century, but the loss increased radically in the sixties with the immorality of “limited vocabulary. "
27 " In fact, genetic medicine has brought the problems of rare genetic conditions right to my own door. "
28 " Discoveries about genetics are not limited to just those 6,000 conditions of a strongly hereditary nature, however. We are now in the midst of a genetic revolution that will touch all of us in numerous ways: "
29 " an essay in the Human Rights Reader, Rorty suggested that the basis for human rights is not rationality or moral law but “what Baier calls ‘a progress of sentiments.’…It is the result of what I have been calling ‘sentimental education.’”17 So the basis for morality, in Rorty’s view, is “sentiment.” We are back to preferences and tastes. But whose sentiments? Rorty’s? A Nazi’s? Or someone else’s? "
30 " The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming "
― Francis S. Collins , The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
31 " The pure, clean water of spiritual truth is placed in rusty containers, and the subsequent failings of the church down through the centuries should not be projected onto the faith itself, as if the water had been the problem. "
32 " Science’s domain is to explore nature. God’s domain is in the spiritual world, a realm not possible to explore with the tools and language of science. It must be examined with the heart, the mind, and the soul—and the mind must find a way to embrace both realms. "
33 " Dios existe, debe estar fuera del mundo natural, y por lo tanto las herramientas de la ciencia no son las adecuadas para conocerlo. En cambio, como lo empezaba a comprender al mirar dentro de mi propio corazón, la evidencia de la existencia de Dios tenía que llegar de otra dirección, y "
34 " Nearly all of the atoms in your body were once cooked in the nuclear furnace of an ancient supernova—you are truly made of stardust. "
35 " Apesar de ser crente à vinte e oito anos a Lei Moral ainda continua a ser, para mim, o maior sinal que aponta para Deus. Mais do que isso: aponta para um Deus que se preocupa com os seres humanos, para um Deus que é infinitamente bom e sagrado. p.169 "
36 " A ciência sem religião é coxa, a religião sem a ciência é cega.’ Alber Einstein (1941). p.176 "
37 " Those distractions combine with a desire to avoid considering our own mortality, so that days, weeks, months, or even years can easily pass where no serious consideration is given to the eternal questions of human existence. "
38 " (...) o ateísmo é a menos racional de todas as concepções possíveis do mundo. p.179 "
39 " Would not intentional restrictions on the progress of life-saving science, simply to allow ethics to “catch up,” be themselves unethical? "
40 " Here’s the question: “Which of the following statements comes closest to your views on the origin and development of human beings? (1) Human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God guided this process. (2) Human beings have developed over millions of years from less advanced forms of life, but God had no part in this process. (3) God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so.” In 2004, 45 percent of Americans chose option 3, 38 percent chose option 1, and 13 percent chose option 2. "
