Link to the info.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/11/14/ngod14.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/11/14/ixnewstop.html
2006-06-17 14:42:58 · 8 answers · asked by atheist 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I was actually excited when I first read a write-up on this in Newsweek a little over a year ago. It finally made me make sense. In my huge, very intellegent and entirely atheistic family I always felt that I had some sort of horrible disease that made me believe in a god. I tried to reason with myself and I tried to change myself- all those things that you hear homosexuals say about grappling with the way they are, but it wasn't a logical thing. It wasn't something I could kill with reason. The only other person in my family who believes in any kind of god was my grandmother. The possibility that I suffer from a recessive gene is the only way my "stupidity" makes sense to me.
2006-06-17 14:59:28 · answer #1 · answered by Emmature 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is a "God Spot" in the brain. Epileptics suffering seizures in "most" cases become highly religious. There is much information on the net about this. Thank you for the great article.
2006-06-17 22:09:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Firstly, this is doubtful. What, did they test atheists and theists? What about atheists that would at some unknown point in the future turn into a theist? Correlation is not causation.
Secondly, what about those who believe and then turn atheist? It's like how gay people have turned straight after they turned to Christ.
2006-06-17 21:53:21 · answer #3 · answered by Soga 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you use the term God, without referring to any particular religion I believe it's true. The observer within all of us ...after you remove ego, conditioning, pride, etc. that inner observer is the same in all of us, we're all infinite reflections of the one ineffable
2006-06-17 21:51:03 · answer #4 · answered by pantheistic_pagan_hippie 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He maybe on to something. Doesn't say they will be religious Just that they can except it more than others without the gene.
2006-06-17 21:54:35 · answer #5 · answered by psych0bug 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time spent on something useless... he could have been doing something much more usefull, like curing an STD or something of that sort.
2006-06-17 21:50:48 · answer #6 · answered by Matt 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dr Hamer has very interesting point there.
2006-06-17 21:48:40 · answer #7 · answered by Vagabond5879 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not to be harsh, but give me a break. There is no gay gene, and there is no "God" gene.
2006-06-17 21:46:41 · answer #8 · answered by The Apple Chick 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋