Not only did I find that he is the co mapper of the human DNA but I also found this column which was on based on the topic of Life and they introduced him with this: “Dr. Collins’s credentials are impeccable: he is a physical chemist, a medical geneticist and the former head of the Human Genome Project. He is also, by his own account, living proof that there is no conflict between science and religion.”
Also, he just happens to be beloved by President Obama, and was nominated by the President to be the Director of the National Institutes of Health.
Before I go on, please understand, knowledge is knowledge. I do my best to not
be biased based on one's belief system but naturally it kind of happens, right? I went to see a "Does God Exist?" debate In April held by Biola University. I listened to both sides openly, but I couldn't argue that at the end of the night it just made more sense for me to believe in God based on more information than just my personal feeling and outlook on Life.
So this lecture by Dr. Collins was very gratifying and rich with information. A man who studied and mapped the human DNA could confess that there was a God.
During one of his lectures he showed the audience a slide of the "Rose Window" from York Minster. Without having to
hear anything else, you could simply look at the stain glass window and see its beauty, the time, and creation of a great mind simply coming into works. He than revealed another slide of the " View along the Axis of the ß DNA double Helix", which revealed true workmanship, a great(er) mind, and just beauty in the creation of the Human Body. Just in the Image of the DNA alone, you're seeing the majesty, the geometry, and you're looking at the chemical imprint within our own Life. 3.1 Billion bits of information just in that strand within a small section of our DNA. Amazing!!!
If you were to look at the Rose Window alone; all those thousands of pieces of color, shapes, and sizes and confess to yourself that by some chance they just happened to come together without workmanship, intelligence, and an articulate mind, one could admit that you know nothing of art.
So, friends, how much more the strand of DNA? I cannot convince myself that by some chance, matter, and time we all came to be.
When we try to find reason coming from non reason than that's where somebody has to cry halt.
Atheism, and Evolution could never answer the four questions of Life, which are "Origin, Meaning, Destiny, and Morality" - I'm sorry. It just can't be done from the view points of men who don't truly appreciate what we are, and why we're here on Earth.
When you think of Life, think of its greatest emotion... Love.
Remember this: God Is Love, and Love is Real, Because God is Real.
