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Originally Posted by Mr Beer
Yeah, well one group of scientists managed a cure, but the millions of devout people who prayed for that exact result don't get any credit? Typical atheist propoganda.
Don't know why they posted a pure science article in an RGT article thread. There's no religion in the article.
Of course no one's probably did more than Francis Collins, a theist and former head of the Human Genome Project, at identifying the role that defective genes play in diseases. He's found the cure to more than one disease himself.
Wiki quote:
"He joined the University of Michigan in 1984, rising to the rank of Professor of Internal Medicine and Human Genetics. He heightened his reputation as a gene hunter. That gene-hunting approach, which he named "positional cloning", developed into a powerful component of modern molecular genetics.
In the 1980s, several scientific teams were working to identify the genes for cystic fibrosis. Toward the end of the decade, progress had been made, but Lap-Chee Tsui, heading the team working at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, considered that a shortcut was needed, to speed up the process. For this purpose, he contacted Francis Collins, who joined the team and used his chromosome jumping technique. subsequently, the gene was discovered in June 1989. The discovery was covered by Science Sept 8, 1989. This was soon followed by other scientific teams genetic discoveries, including isolation of the genes for Huntington's disease, neurofibromatosis, and multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis...rship_at_NHGRI