Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D.,Director of the Human Genome Project. (former Atheist, became a Christian because of the Evidence in DNA, etc...) https://youtube/watch?v=w5bPbwkjKMM 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 Gods language, and the elegance and complexity of our own bodies and the rest of nature as a reflection of Gods 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. I had to admit that the science I loved so much was powerless to answer questions such as What is the meaning of life? Why am I here? Why does mathematics work, anyway? If the universe had a beginning, who created it? Why are the physical constants in the universe so finely tuned to allow the possibility of complex life forms? Why do humans have a moral sense? What happens after we die? I had always assumed that faith was based on purely emotional and irrational arguments, and was astounded to discover, initially in the writings of the Oxford scholar C.S. Lewis, and subsequently from many other sources, that one could build a very strong case for the plausibility of the existence of God on purely rational grounds. My earlier atheists assertion that I know there is no God emerged as the least defensible. As the British writer G.K. Chesterton famously remarked, Atheism is the most daring of all dogmas, for it is the assertion of a universal negative.
Posted on: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 17:14:01 +0000