Is God in Our Genes?
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A provocative study asks whether religion is a product of evol ution. Inside a quest for the roots of faith
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Maybe you're related to John Lennon, Hillary Clinton, Genghis Khan, or the Iberians of ancient Spain? Beyond providing social networking, several Google-funded Web sites targeted at North Americans will test your DNA and may give you some genetic clues.
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Here&#39;s something to ponder when you eat your next chicken wing: A new study says about 60% of the genes in the critter you&#39;re eating have close cousins in your own DNA.
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Man's ability to digest starchy foods may explain our success on the planet, genetic work suggests.
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FRIDAY, Feb. 4 (HealthDayNews) -- A mother's love may be unconditional, but her genes can be a burden for some children, research suggests.
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Comment is free: Paul Davies We will never explain the cosmos by taking on faith either divinity or physical laws. True meaning is to be found within nature.
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[World News]: London, Nov 25 : A new study, to be published in the journal &#39;Twin Research&#39; has indicated that showing an inclination towards being unfaithful, not having faith in god and getting divorced might something that is far beyond your control as
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Part of the answer to why children raised on breast milk tend to score higher on I.Q. tests may lie in a gene.
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ARE you a naturist or a nurturist? Sorry, I should rephrase that. Which side of the nature-versus-nurture debate are you on? There is another, more relevant question.
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Here's something to ponder when you bite into your next chicken wing: A new study says about 60 percent of the genes in the critter you're eating have close cousins in your own DNA.
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Where do moral rules come from? From reason? From God? Some suggest morality can be found buried deep in evolution.
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J. Craig Venter, genome scientist extraordinaire, takes his genome analysis to a new level of detail, showing humans are not 99.9 percent similar to each other as previously thought.
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A recent study initiated by drug manufacturing company DeCode Genetics of Reykjavik, has come up with startling results. The report was published in âPloS Medicineâ, the on-line journal.
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If as some have suggested religions are viruses of the mind, then it might make sense to separate the components of any given religion into two parts. The first part being those things which are necessary to maintain viral infection and which assist in the infection of new hosts. The second part is the payload: Those instructions which the virus writer wishes those who have been infected to carry out or execute.     My hope is that this method of analysis will assist others in understanding the structure of existing religions as well as those who aim to write one from scratch
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Lice genes have been a head-scratcher for experts in human origins who now suspect that we humans picked up some parasites from our more primitive ancestors.
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The first gene linked to tallness, one of the most heritable of traits, has been discovered by scientists, a finding that is expected to shed light on human development and further understanding of cancer.
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Our food likes and dislikes may have more to do with genes than choice, UK researchers believe.