Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Francis Collins Interviewed on CNN


Biologist Francis Collins (M.D., Ph.D), head of the Human Genome Project, is interviewed on cnn.com today about his belief in God and belief in Jesus Christ. Here are a few Collins' quotes.


"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]n my 27th year... a search to learn more about God's character led me to the person of Jesus Christ. Here was a person with remarkably strong historical evidence of his life, who made astounding statements about loving your neighbor, and whose claims about being God's son seemed to demand a decision about whether he was deluded or the real thing. After resisting for nearly two years, I found it impossible to go on living in such a state of uncertainty, and I became a follower of Jesus."