Truth,
I would suggest that you read the whole article thoroughly and see if you come to the same conclusion. Dr. Hamer was seeking to prove that there was a correlation between spirituality and genetics. He found out about VMAT2 polymorphism and then made a jump to calling it the god gene.
This is what Dr. René J. Muller has to say about Dr. Hamer's approach:
Rhizo
I would suggest that you read the whole article thoroughly and see if you come to the same conclusion. Dr. Hamer was seeking to prove that there was a correlation between spirituality and genetics. He found out about VMAT2 polymorphism and then made a jump to calling it the god gene.
This is what Dr. René J. Muller has to say about Dr. Hamer's approach:
Quote:The "bottom up" explanations for religious belief and spirituality offered by neurotheologians and neurogeneticists derive from a science that sees our lives as being largely determined by biological factors. These theories are based on empirical data that have been "stretched" across a discontinuity that still separates the constructs of brain and mind.11 In spite of what some clinicians and theoreticians propose, no one can yet say how the brain—which is necessary for all activity that we recognize as human and is clearly a progenitor of what we call the mind—produces the contents of consciousness,12 including religious belief.
Rhizo
