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The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief | 
 enlarge | Author: Francis S. Collins
Publisher: Free Press
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Pages: 294
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 1416542744
Dewey Decimal Number: 215
EAN: 9781416542742
ASIN: 1416542744
Publication Date: July 17, 2007
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Product Description
Dr. Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, is one of the world's leading scientists. He works at the cutting edge of the study of DNA, the code of life. Yet he is also a man of unshakable faith in God and scripture.Dr. Collins believes that faith in God and faith in science can coexist within a person and be harmonious. In The Language of God he makes his case for God and for science. He has heard every argument against faith from scientists, and he can refute them. He has also heard the needless rejection of scientific truths by some people of faith, and he can counter that, too. He explains his own journey from atheism to faith, and then takes readers for a stunning tour of modern science to show that physics, chemistry, and biology can all fit together with belief in God and the Bible. The Language of God is essential reading for anyone who wonders about the deepest questions of faith: Why are we here? How did we get here? What does life mean?
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 I am on my 2nd reading September 5, 2008
I enjoyed it that much, and need to appreciate his expertise even more.
I really appreciated the sensitivity to theology from the scientist. I have read attestations to belief in deity by other scientists who should have consulted a theologian to frame their case.
Courage September 3, 2008
The Languag of God had a profound effect on me. As a corporate director for a fortune 500 company I continually strive to incorporate spirituality in the workplace. Not as an in-your-face endeavor, but rather as an example. With the way the world is becoming and indeed, our own nation, I find this to be an ardous task.
This book, helped me over some rough spots. Having recently read the God Delusion and God Is Not Great, I was in dire need of a refreshing view from my side of the fence.
This book will fortify what you already know and will be a great comfort to you as you live out your life in this changing time.
Now I only need for the author to continue the tread and write several more books. I can assure you that I will buy and cherish all of them.
Michael L. Gooch, SPHR - Author of Wingtips with Spurs
Thank God & Amazon.com August 31, 2008
Thank God for Francis S. Collins and his creative scientific perspectives concerning the natural aspects of God & Nature.
Thank Amazon.com for the fine service it performs bringing products and information like this to the public.
 Terrible. Bad literature research, bad science, bad theology. August 29, 2008
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I was very disappointed in this book.
I have studied the theories of origins for 10 years. My educational and career background is in both biology and theology. I very much enjoy exploring the various theories, opinions, and points of view---when they are credible.
I could not believe my eyes when I read many blatantly false and flimsy statements in this book! What the heck?! This author is supposed to be a brilliant scientist!
Concerning several of the theories he "critiques," he did not do his literature research well. Some of his arguments have strong, published rebuttals that anyone with half a brain would see the perfect logic and scientific merit in.
In addition, his lack of scriptural knowledge is very obvious to anyone who is intimately familiar with the Bible.
I was hoping for a thought-provoking, ground-breaking idea from this guy. What I got was a bunch of grossly misrepresented and misinterpreted science and scripture.
Don't waste your money.
Some Comments on Thiestic Evolution August 20, 2008
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The glaring gap in Dr. Collins's intellectual development from atheist to theist is his lack of knowledge of metaphysics. He falls for Stephen Jay Gould's idea that science and religion are two different "magisteriums" (Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life). To understand evolution a scientist needs to know that there are three methods of inquiry: science, metaphysics, and theology. The existence of God and the concept of the human soul are formal results in metaphysics arising, respectively, from the two existential propositions that human being are different from one another and yet equal to one another. For this branch of knowledge I recommend The One and the Many: A Contemporary Thomistic Metaphysics by Norris Clarke, S. J. Metaphysics helps us to understand evolution in two ways: 1) Evolution only applies to the bodies of human beings, not their souls. 2) Intelligent design (ID) is bad science, not because of its critique of natural selection, but because ID is metaphysics, not science.
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