Excerpt: 'What is it that causes some people to be more religious than others? Could it possibly be that some people are genetically predisposed to have certain spiritual experiences? Is there a “god” gene?
Some people say that there is, or at least that this is what science is starting to show. In a book called The God Gene: How Faith Is Hardwired into Our Genes [New York: Doubleday, 2004], Dean Hamer of the National Cancer Institute argues that some people have God in their genes. He says: “I’m a believer that every thought we think and every feeling we feel is the result of activity in the brain. I think we follow the basic law of nature, which is that we’re a bunch of chemical reactions running around in a bag” [quoted by Jeffrey Kluger in “Is God in Our Genes?” TIME, October 25, 2004, page 65].'
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Many of these are now published in 'My Father's World: Meditations on Christianity and Culture', 2002, and 'He Speaks to Me Everywhere', 2004, both by Philip Graham Ryken, P&R Publishing.
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Philip Graham Ryken is Senior Minister of Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, where he has preached since 1995. He was educated at Wheaton College (IL), Westminster Theological Seminary (PA) and the University of Oxford (UK), from which he received his doctorate in...
