Dr Francis Collins interview on CNN

Dr Francis Collins (Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute) explains why he believes in a personal God and how his faith is compatible with science.

From Wikipedia:

Francis S. Collins (born April 14, 1950), M.D., Ph.D., is a physician-geneticist, noted for his landmark discoveries of disease genes, and his leadership of the Human Genome Project (HGP). He is director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).

With Collins at the helm, the HGP has attained several milestones, while running ahead of schedule and under budget. A working draft of the human genome was announced in June 2000, and Collins was joined by US President Bill Clinton and rival scientist Craig Venter in making the announcement.[1] Venter and Collins thus shared the "Biography of the Year" title from A&E Network.[2] An initial analysis was published in February 2001. HGP scientists continued to work toward finishing the sequence of all three billion base pairs by 2003, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Watson and Crick's seminal publication of the structure of DNA.

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[420simpson]

@majulahagapao actually they do. dogs dont rape and kill their own on random. some dogs however get agressive, and forceful. just like people. animals with more advanced brains show these characterics. dogs show social behaviors more than snails. rats show more social behaviors than snails. chimps and dolphins show more social behaviors than dogs and snails. humans show more social behaviors than chimps and dolphons. get over it. these are called facts.

[majulahagapao]

@420simpson no they don't

[Megapolable]

@420simpson youre right but then the believer would say God put that in animals as well but humans have it more clearly so theyre more special...and they go on and on and on...

[420simpson]

dogs and sharks have and idea of right and wrong. does that mean there is a dog god and a shark god?

[chuckycostigan]

Brilliant man

[JMcH]

@batistaker123 - Yes, absolutely, they were in large part at fault because they were the ones to exercise the power to punish him.

[batistaker123]

@JMcH The Church did indeed support scientific learning I'll give you that but there had been many times where the church would ban people who wrote something that went against their worldview. The Catholic Church was indeed at fault for Galileo's punishment.

[JMcH]

@batistaker123 - Wow. Wrong on almost all counts. While most Americans don't accept evolution, that's not why the "consensus" exists. The "average scientists" of the geocentric days were the ones pushing for it the hardest. The "consensus" of scientists in Galileo's day were why he was punished. It had little to do with the Church (which went along with the scientists, who clung to the "inherited wisdom of the Greeks") and nothing to do with the Bible.

[batistaker123]

@JMcH Actually the only reason there is talk of consensus for evolution is because the average American refuses to accept evolution. People once argued about heliocentricism when the average scientists accepted it as scientific fact. People were arguing over how the earth had to be the center of the universe while scientists had to correct them that the earth revolved around the sun. Scientific consensus is discussed when the common man doesn't accept what is true.

[JMcH]

@batistaker123 - Many other things in science also rely upon evidence, but there is absolutely zero talk of "consensus" regarding them.  Why is that? Because the evidence for them is not incredibly weak like it is for evolution. Evolution is only backed by "consensus" regarding the interpretation of evidence.