The following is a brief excerpt from a review posted on PopandPolitics.com:In today’s highly charge political atmosphere, science and religion seem to be at war with one another. Half of the people in this country still think the theory of evolution is a threat to their religion and insist that schools should teach Intelligent Design. The other half believe that anything having to do with religion should be relegated to the basements of people’s homes and the word “God” should be listed as the eighth dirty word you can’t say on television. Secular, science prone folks think that the religious folks are lowering the bar for academics and intelligence, while the religious folk believe the other half to be a bunch of godless heathens who are going straight to hell.
One would think that it would be impossible to merge those two parties together in some sort of cohesive fashion, but author and preeminent geneticist at the National Cancer Institute, Dean Hamer, has successfully accomplished just that. Hamer has written a book entitled, “The God Gene: How Faith is Hardwired into Our Genes,” that in my opinion successfully makes the case that biology and spirituality are one in human existence.
First, let me say that we are not necessarily talking about religion here. Religion is a social construct made up of cultural, historical events, and meaningful rituals. Religion is the sum of biology, spirituality, and the lesser realized geographic lottery, not the impetus of spirituality, as one might tend to argue. (More)
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