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Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 20,684 Send Message	maggiewinchester	Report	29 Nov 2009 14:53
	Just listening to a professor on Radio 4 - on a programme about twins. He reckons a belief in God is genetical - based on twins seperated at birth with totally different upbringings. I personally would say if your parents are religious there's a very strong chance you would also be religious. Bit strange if it's 'in the genes'. However, if that IS the case, then it seems like I come from a long line of atheists - on both sides!
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Member Since: February 2006 Posts: 36,149 Send Message	Rambling	Report	29 Nov 2009 15:10
	Interesting , but then again... how would one really know? if say I had a twin and I was brought up in a religious family and she in an aetheist one, we might both become religious or we might both become aethiest, or rebel against 'nurture' and swap lol. I have the same religious 'attitude' as my mum, her father was Catholic, mother C of E , but think it is less to do with her genes and mine in the 'religious' sense...more in our emotional ( and perhaps intellectual?) make up, our beliefs based on what we see around us and what we cannot see but 'feel' ? Rose xx
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