Is God in Our Genes?
"Natural selection and a spiritual gene can no more explain a belief in God and religion than they can say why we find a sunset beautiful."
DARIN REED
Gallup, N.M.
Your article on molecular biologist Dean Hamer's discovery of a gene for spirituality, the so-called God gene, put too much emphasis on the religious aspect of spirituality [Oct. 25]. While such a gene may very well cause those who carry it to experience self-transcendence and to have a feeling of connectedness to a larger universe, that does not always translate into religious beliefs. I tend to...
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