Thursday, February 28, 2008

Religiosity Gene Discovered...

...in Mouse DNA

Scientists have recently analyzed the impact of the certain receptor genes on the risk of high religious conservatism as measured by frequent church attendance, attendance at tent revivals, positive associations with evangelical ideas, and monetary support for corporate churches and conservative talk show hosts in white mice.

Results show that the mice's religious-based political conservatism is caused by a different set of DNA components than simple strong religious beliefs. It would appear that the political variant of this DNA sequence is a strand shared with reptiles. Replacing this strand with a sequence taken from a prescient mammal, such as a whale or baboon, it is theorized, would transform a rabid Repubvangical mouse into a mere European Social Democrat mouse.

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