The God Gene Hypothesis proposes that humanity's spiritual affiliation is hereditary and that a specific gene, called (VMAT2), prepares humans for spiritual affiliation or mysticism. The idea was proposed by geneticist Dean Hamer in his book The God Gene: How Faith is Hardwired in Our Genes. That is, how faith is built into our genes. The hypothesis is based on behavioral, neurobiological, and psychological genetic studies. He found that the genetic VMAT2 plays an important role in regulating brain activities associated with mystical beliefs.
Rowthorn concluded that nearly all people have a genetic predisposition toward religion, and although some will lean toward secularism, they will carry the religiosity gene with them.
The Quran says;
Certainly We have created human in distress. Have We not given him a pair of eyes? And a tongue and two lips. And We have shown him the two ways ˹of right and wrong˺.
Indeed, We guided him to the way, be he grateful or be he ungrateful.
Faith isn't in our genes, it's indoctrinated into us by society. Shut up and do what you're told. Don't talk back. Don't argue. Listen to your superiors. Yes you got that math problem right, but you didn't do it the way you were told, do it again. .etc.
Rote teaching methods, and societal conditioning by those in power. It's not "faith" it's the conditioning of people to operate within a pseudo slave society, in which a relative handful of people see any true benefits of all the work done.
Or are you going to suggest that I'm crazy for thinking this, while you're proposing the existence of a giant invisible magic man that decides the fate of all humanity.
Science figured out that certain survival based instincts were guided by biology, and then religion, gay haters, society based gender structures apologists, and people that feel shameful about how shallow they are when it comes to a person's physical appearance, despite that they're only like that because they were conditioned from an early age to only value a certain specific type of face.
All of these people decided to use that as an excuse to create a load of pseudo sciences, that dictate that our biology alone makes half our decisions for us. Which make for some extremely stupid hypotheses to come from a self aware species..
Your biology doesn't tell you to do anything when it comes to simple decision making, based on narratives we know nothing about before they're thrust upon us by our elders. And if you feel that you had no choice in decisions made, that's because societal pressures, coupled with personal experiences, made you feel that way.
I may not be free financially, but I'll not have my freedom of thought stolen by oppressive institutions. So if I want to believe in God, not believe in God, or use a Jesus cross to sodomize myself, that's my decisions to make, and biology got nothing to do with that. But for the record, I wouldn't do that last one; just sounds a bit painful.
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Lazarus102
on Thu 02/16/23 02:54 AM