We give our kids vaccinations. That's a biological enhancement that's considered not just acceptable but actually admirable.

I think there are people who's lives have been saved because of the study of the genome.

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 perceived something that no human knew before but God knew all along.

A virus is not just DNA; a virus is also packaged up, covered over with a series of proteins in a nice, elegant, well-compacted form.

God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.

My daughter is a practicing physician so believe me I get a lot of the frustration from her. You get it from patients. For me personally, when I ask my doctor to send me my record, what I get is a scanned PDF of his hard copy! This is not good. It would be hopeless to work with a million people if you had to do this on paper, and one of the reasons this is the right time for this is because of the existence of EHRs.

In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don't expect to see one.