ThaG said:
thanks
I didn't understand how this is a "God gene" though, it is an allele of VMAT2, not a gene....
Really, I don't see the big deal with this whole "God Gene" thing anyways because it doesn't help the case of the believer at all. It sees to explain away faith as a bunch of chemical processes, even though the evidence for this is extremely speculative.. They're not in the stage of trying to figure out the
evolutionary advantage of such a gene or allele...
This was one (not most) theologian's way of trying to compromise..
"Religious believers can point to the existence of God genes as one more sign of the Creator's ingenuity — a clever way to help humans acknowledge and embrace a divine presence"..
^^Even though that would go totally against the doctrine of free will... Ain't no God Gene...