Post by gadreel on Oct 14, 2019 20:44:15 GMT
Oct 14, 2019 1:50:13 GMT goz said:
You made a claim that genetics has absolutely nothing to do with religion, I provided evidence that at least some of the relevant scientific community disagree with you. As far as I am concerned I have made my point, there is evidence that genetics has a part to play in religion.
if you don't believe me, or want to start making straw men about there being some claim that religion resembles a gene, fine go ahead, it's no skin off my nose, my point has been adequately proven.
TWO things:
ANYONE who claims that
The team gave questionnaires to 169 pairs of identical twins – 100% genetically identical – and 104 pairs of fraternal twins – 50% genetically identical – born in Minnesota.
It makes you wonder why ANY 'scientist' would include 'fraternal twins' in any study and think that they are any more related than regular siblings.
It certainly compromises any result that they get as it is a false assumption and scientifically inaccurate.
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He also points out that the finding may not be universal because the research focused on a single population of US men.
ANYONE who claims that
The team gave questionnaires to 169 pairs of identical twins – 100% genetically identical – and 104 pairs of fraternal twins – 50% genetically identical – born in Minnesota.
hasn't the faintest idea about genetics. Fraternal twins have the same genetics as siblings ALL of whom inherit 50% of their genes from each at the rate of 50% not necessarily the SAME genes. In fact the chances of that happening are infinitesimal.
Like brothers and sisters, fraternal twins will have about half of their genetic makeup in common. They share about 50% of their DNA, the same as any siblings. Both individual receives half of their DNA from Mother’s egg and the half from the father’s sperm, and so the two offspring will have some overlapping qualities.
Fraternal twins are really just siblings who share the same womb. Each starts out as a separate egg fertilized by a separate sperm. They don't share any more DNA than do any two siblings. Siblings normally have 50% of their DNA the same.
So I am not really sure what 'experts' you are referring too, but here are two saying that you are wrong, you are welcome to evidence expert commentary that refutes this if you like, but your assertions are not evidence.
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He also points out that the finding may not be universal because the research focused on a single population of US men.
Cool, that is one study, and yes it can only be applied to the subject group, however that is not the only academic paper that posits a religosity gene:
www.lifescied.org/doi/full/10.1187/cbe.07-05-0029AND
He also points out that the finding may not be universal because the research focused on a single population of US men.
Cool, that is one study, and yes it can only be applied to the subject group, however that is not the only academic paper that posits a religosity gene:
And before you say it, no this is not proven but it there is enough feeling in the scientific community that your assertion that
There is no genetic disposition towards religion or faith,
Simply does not hold water, as there may well be.