Of course its in genes. Everything is.
Just like our sexual preferences?
It reminds me of a story I heard about Abe Lincoln once who was arguing that basic point with a preacher while riding on a train. The train stops to take on water and Lincoln noticed some piglets struggling to get out of a mud hole made deeper by the dripping water from the rail siding tank. Without hesitation, Lincoln gets out, extracts the piglets from the mud and saves them from a probable death by drowning or suffocation.
His traveling companion exclaims "You just proved my point. You had nothing to gain, yet your innate goodness caused you to save those piglets!"
"On the contrary," responded Lincoln, "it was not my innate goodness at all. Just my experience as a farmer knowing what would happen to those piglets had I failed to act."
indeed...we are over half of what we are by birth
>>Of course its in genes. Everything is.
Potential may be in the genes - but the exploitation of that potential is more likely a social product than a genetic one.
At what point does the bee become distinct from the hive... in Deseret or elsewhere?
Not everything. Women who are violently raped and get pregnant and have the baby have perfectly normal babies. Adopted kids learn great morals from good adoptive parents.
If genes were everything, we should not let children of criminals free. G-d gives every single person a chance to be good. The sins of the fathers...