{"id":1076,"date":"2008-02-05T22:21:17","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T06:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/02\/05\/francis-collins-presents-compelling-case-for-faith\/"},"modified":"2009-07-20T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T18:00:01","slug":"francis-collins-presents-compelling-case-for-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/02\/05\/francis-collins-presents-compelling-case-for-faith","title":{"rendered":"Scientist Francis Collins Presents Compelling Case for Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m sit\u00adting in the green room (the room a speak\u00ader uses to pre\u00adpare for a speech or per\u00adfor\u00admance) just after Fran\u00adcis Collins fin\u00adished a phe\u00adnom\u00ade\u00adnal pre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtion on the com\u00adpat\u00adi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty of faith and sci\u00adence.<\/p>\n<p>He was astound\u00ading. If you haven\u2019t read his book <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Language_of_God:_A_Scientist_Presents_Evidence_for_Belief\">The Lan\u00adguage of God<\/a> then I rec\u00adom\u00admend you pick it up. We\u2019ll be putting a video of his pre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtion up soon at <a href=\"http:\/\/franciscollinstalk.stanford.edu\/\">http:\/\/franciscollinstalk.stanford.edu<\/a> <\/p>\n<ul style=\"display:none\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apostilla.com?remember_the_titans\">remem\u00adber the titans divx online<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> . If you\u2019re impa\u00adtient you can see one of  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veritas.org\/download\/media\/V07MIT01.mov\">a sim\u00adi\u00adlar pre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtion at MIT<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n<p>Our venue, Memo\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal Audi\u00adto\u00adri\u00adum, seats 1,700. Our over\u00adflow room, Bish\u00adop Audi\u00adto\u00adri\u00adum, seats 324. We had to open five addi\u00adtion\u00adal class\u00adrooms. I\u2019m con\u00adfi\u00addent we had at least 2,000 peo\u00adple turn out, but a police offi\u00adcer pro\u00advid\u00ading secu\u00adri\u00adty was bold enough to sug\u00adgest that the real total was 2,300.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite part of the event? Look\u00ading at the pro\u00adgram and see\u00ading six lines.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWel\u00adcome: Lisa Ooi<br>\n <i>PhD stu\u00addent, Chem\u00adi\u00adcal &amp; Sys\u00adtems Biol\u00ado\u00adgy<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Intro\u00adduc\u00adtion: Pro\u00adfes\u00adsor William New\u00adsome<br>\n<i>Chair, Stan\u00adford Depart\u00adment of Neu\u00adro\u00adbi\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgy<\/i> <em style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bsf.org.br?the_last_house_on_the_left\">the last house on the left online<\/a><\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Lec\u00adture: Dr. Fran\u00adcis Collins<br>\n<i>Direc\u00adtor, Nation\u00adal Human Genome Research Insti\u00adtute<\/i>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Those six lines sum up the whole event bril\u00adliant\u00adly \u2014 many very bright sci\u00aden\u00adtists see no nec\u00ades\u00adsary con\u00adflict between sci\u00adence and Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty.<\/p>\n<p>Oh \u2014 if you\u2019ve been fol\u00adlow\u00ading my blog for a long time, you might remem\u00adber Lisa Ooi\u2019s name. She\u2019s a long\u00adtime Chi Alphan who actu\u00adal\u00adly lived with Paula and I for a brief sea\u00adson. She did a great job and we\u2019re very proud of her.<\/p>\n<p>My sec\u00adond-favorite part of the event? Him show\u00ading the clip of him\u00adself <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/motherload\/index.jhtml?ml_video=79238\">being grilled by Stephen Col\u00adbert<\/a>. Fun\u00adny stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Big thanks to Chi Alpha\u2019s co-spon\u00adsors <a href=\"http:\/\/ivgrad.stanford.edu\/\">Inter\u00adVar\u00adsi\u00adty Grad\u00adu\u00adate Chris\u00adt\u00adian Fel\u00adlow\u00adship<\/a> <strong style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clacs04.org?blues_brothers_2000\">blues broth\u00aders 2000 divx online<\/a><\/strong>  (the real dri\u00adving force for this event), the <a href=\"http:\/\/catholic.stanford.edu\/\">Catholic Com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty at Stan\u00adford<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/veritas.org\/\">Ver\u00adi\u00adtas Forum<\/a> <u style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gatorworks.net?push\">divx push<\/a><\/u> <\/p>\n<p style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/turtleconservationfund.org\/?i_am_sam\">watch i am sam online<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  . We could nev\u00ader have pulled off an event of this scale alone. A big spe\u00adcial thanks to Amy Cham\u00adbers and Kyle Heath who shoul\u00addered a ridicu\u00adlous amount of the admin\u00adis\u00adtra\u00adtive details, to Pete Som\u00admer for rais\u00ading a lot of mon\u00adey to make this hap\u00adpen, to Kyle Pub\u00adols and Andrea Romero for run\u00adning micro\u00adphones dur\u00ading the q &amp; a so very well, to the many stu\u00addents who helped route peo\u00adple to over\u00adflow rooms on an instan\u00adt\u2019s notice, and to Lena Ho, Xianne Leiong, Hilary Dyer, Isaac Pen\u00adny, and all those who sat through lengthy meet\u00adings to plan this whole thing. Oh, and Dr. Bill New\u00adsome did a tremen\u00addous job. And thanks to the Office for Reli\u00adgious Life and Dean Scot\u00adty McLen\u00adnan for giv\u00ading us per\u00admis\u00adsion to go for it.<\/p>\n<p>Final\u00adly, a spe\u00adcial thanks to Clare Kasem\u00adset who did a great job on the plan\u00adning side but fell ill at the last minute and was unable to make it to the event. Hope you enjoy the video, Clare. Get well soon.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll try to get some pho\u00adtos and more thoughts online lat\u00ader. Right now I need to focus on get\u00adting ready to preach a ser\u00admon\u00adic per\u00adspec\u00adtive on the same themes tomor\u00adrow night. I\u2019ve got some big shoes to fill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m sit\u00adting in the green room (the room a speak\u00ader uses to pre\u00adpare for a speech or per\u00adfor\u00admance) just after Fran\u00adcis Collins fin\u00adished a phe\u00adnom\u00ade\u00adnal pre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtion on the com\u00adpat\u00adi\u00adbil\u00adi\u00adty of faith and sci\u00adence. He was astound\u00ading. If you haven\u2019t read his book The Lan\u00adguage of God then I rec\u00adom\u00admend you pick it up. We\u2019ll be \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/02\/05\/francis-collins-presents-compelling-case-for-faith\" class=\"more-link\">Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cSci\u00aden\u00adtist Fran\u00adcis Collins Presents Com\u00adpelling Case for Faith\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanfordministry-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-hm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2219,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions\/2219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}