In Genes We Trust

  In many ways God is like Genes, I dont believe in God but from what I've heard He is a direct translation, in over simplistic but logical terms, to genes. I will right this pretending I believe because if I right it as an atheist then it woud be a blog about genes, not God and genes. Genes define us, they decide if we have blue or green eyes, if we are tall or small, they have even discused that it defines are sexual inclination. God did the same thing, apparently he made us all out of clay and sculpted us carefully, he defined us and even set a purpose for us in life. Genes also set a purpose for us, they created us and defined us so we would mantain their longevity. It is said that we chose to spread the word of God and perpetuate his "life" by preaching and shoving it down other people's mouth, but if God predetermined our lives from the get go then he is doing this himself. God as well as genes are bigger that us, they are part of a much important and bigger picture and because of this they use us but thats just the way we fit in this bigger picture.


   One of the questions that arose when I decided to drop my faith was: if God doesn't exist then why was he invented? Well if God and Genes are so alike and we found out about God first then our discovery of them must have originated from the same curiosity and question. Why are we here? Why do we exist? These questions are so overwhelming that we would do anything to stop the from eating us alive, even if it means blindingly following three letters that together rhyme with "gob". The God we made is a perfect answer to a problem, however it has no data to back it up but who cares, we are only trying to convince ourselves, and we dont need facts for that. This is the point were genes step into the picture and I have to put my foot down and say what the frog. Genes tell us why we are here, who we are and why we are good for, what else do you want? There answer is not very encouraging since they pretty much tell us we are vessels for their continuity, just like the poor hostages of Alien. Even though they don't give us an inpiring, divine answer to our question, they acctually answer it, with facts!


  Even though I could keep on plastering my frustration, I musn't. Im afraid I have gone completely off topic with this blog however the explanation lies on the chapter, it was way to scientific and as ignorant as that sounds, I found it really hard to expand on, so I chose the easy way out and talked about religion, a topic that I could talk about until I get kicked out of a church.