'God gene' discovered by scientist behind gay DNA theory (reader beware)

Telegraph ^ | 11/14/2004 | Elizabeth Day

[Former Military Chick]

I am rendered speechless.

[CWOJackson]

"...an American molecular geneticist has concluded that a person's capacity to believe in God is linked to brain chemicals."

Hmmmmmmm. And all this time I thought it was faith?

I guess I still do.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Goofy Crap!

[Delphinium]

Bull.

[speedy]

So does that mean there is an atheist gene too? And what about people who are atheists and later in life become religious? Does this mean they underwent a genetic change? Inquiring minds want to know.

[durasell]

At least this would explain how people believe in crack pot theories outside the mainstream or even rational. They have a hard-wired need to believe.

[farmfriend]

ping

[PhotoFixer3]

ehhh I have gas....

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[TommyDale]

WTF?

[Bob J]

Turn it around. Those with an absence of this gene may be predisposed to a reluctance accepting a higher authority than themselves.

[Mike Fieschko]

"Buddha, Mohammed and Jesus all shared a series of mystical experiences or alterations in consciousness and thus probably carried the gene," he said.

He forgot the Q.E.D. between the phrases. Or, is that why he used 'thus'?

[Right in Wisconsin]

It's amazing the extremes some will go to justify a lifestyle.

[Grig]

Bunk. But can we use it to get special rights? :)

[Anti-Bubba182]

Is Sexual Orientation Fixed at Birth?

"..(1) From Dr. Dean Hamer, the "gay gene" researcher, and himself a gay man:

"Genes are hardware...the data of life's experiences are processed through the sexual software into the circuits of identity. I suspect the sexual software is a mixture of both genes and environment, in much the same way the software of a computer is a mixture of what's installed at the factory and what's added by the user." .."

[jim35]

Oh, brother. One more kooky theory from the same guy who brought us the gay gene. I think he's got some kind of gene that gives him a stubborn ability to come to bizarre conclusions based on flimsy evidence. He needs a transfusion of common sense.

[SteveMcKing]

Simple pedigree studies - conducted for centuries past - would have shown this by now if it were true.

[Paul Atreides]

It sounds to me as if there are some people who are making science into a religion.

[jim35]

Ooooo... You may be on to something here!

[Santana]

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, WEB
Romans 1:22

The good doctor is a fool.