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The most senior official in the Human Genome project, Francis Collins, was an
atheist until the age 27. Seeing that sufferers from disease acquired great spir-
itual strength thanks to their faith in Allah, Collins began believing in His exis-
tence. He describes how as a young doctor, he was affected by the strength
that faith bestowed on critical patients:
They had terrible diseases from which they were probably not going to escape,
and yet instead of railing at God they seemed to lean on their faith as a source
of great comfort and reassurance . . . That was interesting, puzzling and unset-
tling. 1
In the years that followed, Collins saw the magnificent information contained in
DNA, was definitively convinced, and declared the reason for his belief in his
book The Language of God, in which he describes how there is a logical basis
for the existence of Allah and how scientific discoveries draw man closer to
Him.
In an article titled "I've Found God, Says Man Who Cracked the Genome," pub-
lished in The Sunday Times on 11 June, 2006, he writes:
One of the great tragedies of our time is this impression that has been created
that science and religion have to be at war . . . I don't see that as necessary at
all and I think it is deeply disappointing that the shrill voices that occupy the ex-
tremes of this spectrum have dominated the stage for the past 20 years. When
you make a breakthrough it is a moment of scientific exhilaration because you
have been on this search and seem to have found it. But it is also a moment
where I at least feel closeness to the Creator in the sense of having now per-
ceived something that no human knew before but
God knew all along. When you have for the first
time in front of you this 3.1 billion-letter instruc-
tion book that conveys all kinds of information
and all kinds of mystery about humankind, you
can't survey that going through page after
page without a sense of awe. I can't help but
look at those pages and have a vague
sense that this is giving me a glimpse of
God's mind. 2

1, 2- Steven Swinford; The Sunday Times,
11 June 2006; http://www.timeson-
line.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2220484,00.html