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Originally Posted by RCAlyra2004
to feel spiritual = genetic... to go to church = environment
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C'mon now... I think there's a little blunder in this so called "spirituality" gene conclusion. I would highly disbelieve any idea that genes affect spirituality directly, and I feel this is the way that the research was taken (not to mention that it was performed in a manner to be biased to a religious-based result). Genetics affects more general characteristics. While sexual preference is a "general" human characteristic (at least in my method of thinking) since it does not involve complex thought, religion is a much more complex behavior being somewhat philosophical and requiring many levels of thought. This being said, if their research is accurate, I believe what they may have found is a gene that relates to the propensity of the individual to deal with abstract concepts or some other area of thought which would tend the individual towards religion.