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If you think about your DNA and its link to your behavior, you might believe it’s hardwired—that is, our DNA determines who we are and how we behave with others. In a review paper in the November 2008 issue of Science, authors Robinson, Fernald, and Clayton show that social information alters gene expression in the brain to influence behavior, and genetic variation influences brain function and social behavior. ScienceDaily reports: “There is a dynamic relationship between genes and behavior,” Robinson said. “Behavior is not etched in the DNA.” (italics mine) On-going studies are revealing that social signals can have a profound effect on when and how genes function. Speaking of an organism’s genes, its environment, the social information it receives, “all these things interact,” said Clayton. “Experience is constantly coming back in to the level of the DNA and twiddling the dials and the knobs.” In other words, don’t blame your behavior totally on your genetic makeup. Syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker says in her November 19, 2008 column Giving Up on God, “…religion is killing the Republican Party.” The “one-issue” religious conservatives have done their party of choice no favors. Even worse, in my opinion, is what this same group of of people have done to unintentionally damage the image of Christianity in our country. Because of intentional engagement of others with different beliefs and moral standards as political adversaries, Christians have developed a reputation as judgmental, unloving, homophobic hypocrites. In their drive to have their right and moral rules become laws, they have become just like the Pharisees that Jesus condemned as whitewashed tombs—shiny on the outside and full of death on the inside. Both the Republican Party and the Christian Church need to recover their foundations before they become perceived as completely irrelevant. |
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