So Islam can be explained away as a birth defect or something?
Selective genes based on our free will choice IMHO. LOL!
Whatever. Kind of validates the Calvinist theory of Predestination though, doesn't it? Ain't got the gene? Burn, baby, burn.
The fact that 90% of the earth's peoples have some form of religious belief can only mean that humans are hard-wired for religiosity. Probably for survival purposes.
So the Designer even thought of this one. Wow.
Irresistible grace....the "I" in TULIP. Could be. Or it could be a load of crap; I could go either way on this one.
Hey... I have a "good" gene nestled away in my brain.
Kinda sorta makes me a "good" Freeper... despite all
my strident efforts to be a "bad" boy (a ZotSnot) !!! ;-))
BTTT
Once we learn to customise these genes we will be able to go to prisons, adjust the felons genes and turn them all loose, Since its obvious that robbers, rapists killers pedophiles and others arent responsible, its their genes.
These people are so ignorant! Good grief! All they had to do was read the Bible and they could have figured out the truth.
"to every man is given THE MEASURE OF FAITH. It's spiritual not physical". And .. in Deut. 28-29, God said, "I've set before you this day blessing and cursing, now you choose".
It's only a correlation. Maybe those people have a propensity to get a 'certainty squirt' in their brain--a biochemical cause of an emotional hindrance to skepticism, or to being able to accept ignorance. There is afterall an emotion associated with having gained an understanding of something. There is also an emotion associated with feeling ignorant. It is probably possible to feel the 'certainty' emotion, or inhibit the 'ignorance' emotion, biochemically and without reason.
However, it's unlikely to be SIMPLY a religion gene, or to result in any debilitating expression.
The "sensational" part of this report strikes me as both trivial and obvious. Most of us know from personal experience that some people are more disposed to seek God than others, and it is hardly surprising that this behavior would have, in part, a genetic base. The same could be said of any other human proclivity. I am, at the moment, participating in a large scientific conference. I can assure you that the average person in this company differs significantly in both personality and physical appearance from the average fan at a Green Bay Packers game. And the biologists among them tend to have very different personalities than the physicists. Is there a genetic component to that? I would be shocked if there isn't. Perhaps the good doctor would be better employed in identifying the peculiar gene that led him to undertake this particular study (physician, know thyself!).
But, given the complexity of religious experience, and the complicated personalities of the people I happen to know, I would be equally shocked if a single gene is determinative. There are, in fact, people at this conference who be quite at home with the Packers, and I know many who have found God after a long life that showed no particular desire to do that.
The next step, of course, is to declare the "God gene" a defect, and religion a mental disease. I have long since ceased to be surprised at the "scientific" conclusions those of a certain political persuasion can reach. They are, I suspect, mentally ill due to the influence of defective genes.
These days, conclusions are made to conform with the funding.
When human faith can be expressed as a mathematical equasion, String Theory will be almost complete, except for the other sentient beings we have yet to be introduced to.
It boils down to pure science interfacing with the unproven facts we all have experienced.
And anyone who believes this crud tests positive for the gullibility gene.
Rom 1:18 "...and they suppress the truth in unrighteousness..."