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[|New York Times] November 14, 2009 In Oaxaca Valley, Mexico, the archaeologists Joyce Marcus and Kent Flannery took a look into the orgin of religion. There was a question as to how it came about. There was always a dispute on Creation vs. Evolution but now some research as shown that a person's religious belief came from there genes. This takes the concept of religion to a whole new level because it is being looked at was a evolved behaivor that exist because it is favored by natural selection. This concept is actually hard to grasp for atheists because it's hard for them to believe that religion was evolved becasue of the benefits of human societies and successors. But for believers it is a more threatening feeling to think that the mind as been shaped already to believe in certain gods. The new discovery is mind blowing.

This theory as many good things to it and conflicts. The religious genes are not just saying that your religious belief is something that was always in your mind it also give the ability to adapt. When someone is in a new environment with different beliefs the "God Gene" lets a person to take on there religion as to taking on there language. This article has answered some questions and brung up other questions. But now is it religious beliefs against evolution beliefs or are they on the same side?

Shannon Johnson March 10, 2010