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"Dr. Jai Maharaj" |
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21 Mar 2005 12:35:28 AM |
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RELIGIOUSNESS LIES IN THE GENES |
Religiousness lies in the genes
ANI
Tuesday, March 15 2005, 16:22 IST
Washington - A person's religious nature is more
influenced by his genes than the environment as he grows
older, reveals a new study.
According to the study published in the Journal of
Personality, researchers studied adult male monozygotic
(MZ) (i.e. Identical twins) and dizygotic (DZ)(i.e.
fraternal twins) and found that difference in
religiousness is influenced by both genes and
environment.
But during the transition from adolescence to adulthood,
genetic factors increase in importance while shared
environmental factors decrease. The MZ twins maintained
their religious similarity over time, while the DZ twins
became more dissimilar.
"These correlations suggest low genetic and high
environmental influences when the twins were young but a
larger genetic influence as the twins age" the authors
state.
Religiousness was tested using self-report of nine items
that measured the centrality of religion in their lives.
The twins graded the frequency in which they partook in
religious activities such as reading scripture or other
religious material and the importance of religious faith
in daily life.
The factors were divided into external aspects of
religion, like observing religious holidays, that might
be the most susceptible to environmental influence and
internal aspects, like seeking help through prayer, that
might be the most susceptible to heritable influence.
The external items were found to be more environmentally
and less genetically influenced during childhood, but
more genetically influenced in adulthood. The internal
scale showed a similar pattern, but the genetic
influences seemed to be slightly larger in childhood
compared to the external scale and so more consistent
across the two ages.
"Like other personality traits, adult religiousness is
heritable, and though changes in religiousness occur
during development, it is fairly stable," the authors
conclude.
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| User: "Jez" |
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| Title: Re: RELIGIOUSNESS LIES IN THE GENES |
22 Mar 2005 09:45:26 PM |
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Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:
Religiousness lies in the genes
And you post this ***** to alt.atheism because ?
--
Jez
'Realism is seductive because once you have accepted the reasonable
notion that you should base your actions on reality, you are too often
led to accept, without much questioning, someone else's version of what
that reality is. It is a crucial act of independent thinking to be
skeptical of someone else's description of reality.'-
Howard Zinn
NFS Underground2, Americas Army And MOH-PA
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