{"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&nbsp;Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m sitting in the green room (the room a speaker uses to prepare for a speech or performance) just after Francis Collins finished a phenomenal presentation on the compatibility of faith and science.<\/p>\n<p>He was astounding. 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 Language of God<\/a> then I recommend you pick it up. We\u2019ll be putting a video of his presentation 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\">remember the titans divx online<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> . If you\u2019re impatient you can see one of  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veritas.org\/download\/media\/V07MIT01.mov\">a similar presentation at MIT<\/a> last&nbsp;year.<\/p>\n<p>Our venue, Memorial Auditorium, seats 1,700. Our overflow room, Bishop Auditorium, seats 324. We had to open five additional classrooms. I\u2019m confident we had at least 2,000 people turn out, but a police officer providing security was bold enough to suggest that the real total was 2,300.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite part of the event? Looking at the program and seeing six&nbsp;lines.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWelcome: Lisa&nbsp;Ooi<br>\n <i>PhD student, Chemical &amp; Systems Biology<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Introduction: Professor William Newsome<br>\n<i>Chair, Stanford Department of Neurobiology<\/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>Lecture: Dr. Francis Collins<br>\n<i>Director, National Human Genome Research Institute<\/i>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Those six lines sum up the whole event brilliantly \u2014 many very bright scientists see no necessary conflict between science and Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>Oh \u2014 if you\u2019ve been following my blog for a long time, you might remember Lisa Ooi\u2019s name. She\u2019s a longtime Chi Alphan who actually lived with Paula and I for a brief season. She did a great job and we\u2019re very proud of&nbsp;her.<\/p>\n<p>My second-favorite part of the event? Him showing the clip of himself <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/motherload\/index.jhtml?ml_video=79238\">being grilled by Stephen Colbert<\/a>. Funny&nbsp;stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Big thanks to Chi Alpha\u2019s co-sponsors <a href=\"http:\/\/ivgrad.stanford.edu\/\">InterVarsity Graduate Christian Fellowship<\/a> <strong style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clacs04.org?blues_brothers_2000\">blues brothers 2000 divx online<\/a><\/strong>  (the real driving force for this event), the <a href=\"http:\/\/catholic.stanford.edu\/\">Catholic Community at Stanford<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/veritas.org\/\">Veritas 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 never have pulled off an event of this scale alone. A big special thanks to Amy Chambers and Kyle Heath who shouldered a ridiculous amount of the administrative details, to Pete Sommer for raising a lot of money to make this happen, to Kyle Pubols and Andrea Romero for running microphones during the q &amp; a so very well, to the many students who helped route people to overflow rooms on an instant\u2019s notice, and to Lena Ho, Xianne Leiong, Hilary Dyer, Isaac Penny, and all those who sat through lengthy meetings to plan this whole thing. Oh, and Dr. Bill Newsome did a tremendous job. And thanks to the Office for Religious Life and Dean Scotty McLennan for giving us permission to go for&nbsp;it.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, a special thanks to Clare Kasemset who did a great job on the planning 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&nbsp;soon.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll try to get some photos and more thoughts online later. Right now I need to focus on getting ready to preach a sermonic perspective on the same themes tomorrow night. I\u2019ve got some big shoes to&nbsp;fill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m sitting in the green room (the room a speaker uses to prepare for a speech or performance) just after Francis Collins finished a phenomenal presentation on the compatibility of faith and science. He was astounding. If you haven\u2019t read his book The Language of God then I recommend 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\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \u201cScientist Francis Collins Presents Compelling Case for&nbsp;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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"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}]}}