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Unbelievable?

Francis Collins answers your questions on science and faith

Unbelievable?

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 5 June 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Francis Collins is a renowned geneticist who oversaw the Human Genome Project and is currently the director of the National Institutes of Health, USA responding to Covid-19. He founded Biologos, an organisation seeking to show the complementarity of science and faith. His book ’The Language of God’ tells his faith journey. Having been awarded the Templeton Prize 2020, Francis joins Justin to take listener questions about his life, faith and his approach to science and theology. For the Templeton Prize https://www.templetonprize.org For Biologos https://biologos.org/people/francis-collins Subscribe to our newsletter and receive the free Unbelievable? e-book ‘In Conversation With…’ https://resources.premier.org.uk/supportunbelievable/ For more faith debates and extra resources visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable Join the conversation: Facebook and Twitter Get the MP3 Podcast of Unbelievable? Via RSS or Via Itunes

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0:00.0

Well, hello and welcome to another edition of Unbelievably the show that aims to bring you conversations that matter

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Week in week out here on Premiere Christian radio every Saturday

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But listen to around the world at any time of the day or night during the week

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Do go and check out our podcast at premier christianradio.com

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forward slash

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Unbelievably and the links there to all the other good stuff from unbelievable including the app the newsletter the ways to give and

0:24.3

Much more besides and links of course to our YouTube channel where you can find today's show and it's a very

0:30.0

exciting conversation with Templeton prize winner dr. Francis Collins who among other things was the leader of the human genome

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Project teaser are a now geneticist he leads now the national

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Institutes of health in the USA at the forefront of combating coronavirus and searching for a vaccine

0:47.8

So really looking forward to the questions that you've sent in and that will be asking him on today's show now today's

0:54.3

Conversation was recorded before the world was really convulsed by the killing of George Floyd in the USA

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And all of that has that has led to in terms of an outpouring of grief and anger and protest

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And really my prayers around that have been for some kind of

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Redemptive solution to the problems that this is obviously unearthed in our culture, but there are many

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Reflective thoughts and blogs that you can find over at the premier website premier Christianity magazine has a great blog section

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Where you can find out more about that and I hope you to cover the issue

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At some point soon of race and religion and Christianity, so look out for that coming your way

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Also, we did cover just briefly some of the questions around that with our ask NT write anything live stream that took place on Wednesday night

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This past week on our Facebook page

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So if you'd like to see what

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NT write the theologian and

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