Posted on 04/04/2007 4:57:43 PM PDT by roostercogburn
ROCKVILLE, Maryland (CNN) -- 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's language, and the elegance and complexity of our own bodies and the rest of nature as a reflection of God's plan.
I 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.
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He is a believer of neither science or God. He is just scared to burn in hell just in case he is wrong.
That's an empty claim. He's a sientist that made a confession of faith, and you're just playing psychic mind reader.
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I think I get it. Any profession of Christian faith, however detailed, autobiographical and seemingly sincere on it's face, is clearly phony if the confessor deviates from roostercogburn's preferred scenario of life and earth history?
Oh cockadoodle. To get the manner of creation wrong is not the unforgivable sin.
Many scientists now believe that there is strong evidence that this universe was prepared--balanced perfectly--for life. The fossil record is replete with not just evidence of evolution but with evidence of repeated evolutionary developments of the same solutions over and over again: in a word, convergence. All life has been patiently tending toward the same plan.
Intelligent design posits that such solutions bear witness of an organizing intelligence that has an end-purpose in mind. That intelligence need not have intervened in an ad hoc manner to create novel solutions. In fact, that is the least likely and sensible scenario. Rather, it would be sufficient and efficient to have written all of the solutions into primeval DNA and then loosed it into the world to strive and contend through catastrophe, calm, and competition to fill all available ecological niches with the astounding richness of life in all its forms.
ID theory does not deny evolution. It completes it and makes it intelligible.
Galileo
No, not at all.
I believe that he is trying to paint God as what he believes science shows him God must be. This is not faith. That is belief due to him being unable to find scientific explanation for his questions and the miracles of life.
Sorry if my opinion is so offensive to you Stultis. I bet this doc can prove that you did indeed evolve.
From a jackass
Numbers rule the Universe
Pythagoras
The people are destroyed for lack of knowledge
Hosea 4:6
When we cannot use the compass of mathematics, or the torch of experience,It is certain we cannot take a single step forward
Voltaire
Really care?
Your brain is based upon progressive Time in that one event acting upon another event determines subsequent events.
That is the way our brains think and that is science.
Science, though, has no idea how something came into existence out of nothing.
That is religion.
And religion is right.
Is that really needed?
So much for intelligent debate when we digress into namecalling.
Creation through evolution.
That is what this debate boils down to. You believe in saved by grace...some believe in saved by works. Some believe in saved by something else.
>> [Former atheist finds God]
He’s probably suffering from ego fatigue.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week947/profile.html
The guy may be sincere, but he is trying to get folks to believe in evolution. And he feels bad for those of us who may be ridiculed in life due to our belief in Genesis.
No.
"Science, though, has no idea how something came into existence out of nothing."
Nothing can arise, or be created from nothing. Nothing is the empty set, there is zero to work with.
"That is religion. And religion is right."
If the religion does not contain reality, and is illogical, it is simple a fictional story.
Uh, spunkets...think about what you just said.
You have only to look within your own mind. Even Kant, in his Critique of Pure Reason, could not explain the presence of a reasoning capacity within Humans except as an A Priori condition, a thing that cannot be explained purely through logical processes, but must be accepted as a preexisting condition. I recommend highly reading this text.
Do you suppose then that belief in evolution or belief in genesis differs somehow? Or that it matters?
Its both and it neither differs nor matters.
Who cares? I was pretty intellectually aggressive. If the best rooster can do is to call me a jackass it don't bother me.
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