November 26, 2004
Do Our Genes Influence Behavior? Why We Want to Think They Do
A few weeks ago I was hurrying past a newsstand in Grand Central Station when the cover of the latest issue of Time stopped me short. Superimposed on a painting of a blue-skinned, red-lipped woman, her hands clasped in prayer, were the words "The God Gene." The article within reported that in a new book with that title, the geneticist Dean H. Hamer had traced belief in God to a specific gene. "Does our DNA compel us to seek a higher power?" Time asked.
The article left me pondering a
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