Francis S. Collins
Autor de ¿Cómo habla Dios? : la evidencia científica de la fe
Sobre El Autor
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., is a pioneer gene hunter. He spent fifteen years as director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, where he led the international Human Genome Project to a successful completion. For his revolutionary contributions to genetic research he was awarded the mostrar más Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007, and the National Medal of Science in 2009. He is the Director of the National Institutes of Health. mostrar menos
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(eng) Do not combine Francis Collins and Francis S. Collins. They are different authors.
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The Life of Meaning: Reflections on Faith, Doubt, and Repairing the World (2007) — Contribuidor — 125 copias
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Collins, Francis Sellers
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1950-04-15
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Staunton, Virginia, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Staunton, Virginia, USA
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA - Educación
- University of Virginia (BS|Chemistry|1970)
Yale University (PhD|Chemistry|1974)
University of North Carolina (MD|1977) - Ocupaciones
- chemist
geneticist
physician - Organizaciones
- Human Genome Project
National Institutes of Health
March of Dimes - Premios y honores
- Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2007
National Medal of Science, 2008
Albany Medical Center Prize, 2010 - Agente
- Gail Ross
- Aviso de desambiguación
- Do not combine Francis Collins and Francis S. Collins. They are different authors.
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- 6
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- Popularidad
- #8,987
- Valoración
- 3.8
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- ISBNs
- 45
- Idiomas
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A theme throughout the book was Collins’s belief in the moral law. An understanding that universally people regardless of their ethnicity, religion, or nationality subscribed to the tenets of what was right and wrong. The author used this argument along with other scientific data to support the premise in a God that was in and outside of nature. Nevertheless, he thought that it was up to every individual to figure out their spiritual path.
Collins had no problems with Darwin’s evolution, and said that the genome project provided further proof. He wrote about some genes that were responsible for individuals being susceptible to certain diseases like breast cancer and heart disease - those that so far scientists have decoded. This scientific data was supported by quotations from scripture.
Concerning if religion could be compatible with science, he was positive. Collins stated that there were many scientists who were also religious. The author also did not think much of the arguments of atheists like the British Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris. He wrote that their arguments based only on evolution did not solve the mystery concerning if there existed a supreme being. In this book the author presented his evidence by covering the whole sweep of history since the inception of this debate.… (más)