Religion, as wiki puts it, is a "set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a supernatural agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs." I have wanted to blog about this topic quite some time ago, I just lack the time and will to do. But after much deliberation, I have decided to do it today. By Religion, I mean "higher beings" or "supernatural forces" etc, not necessary deity beings. We all know, or least people who have studied a fair amount of Biology, that the DNA is a set of instructions that make up an individual of any living thing on Earth. Physical traits, such as having fingers or a spotted tail are predetermined by a gene or sets of genes that relate to each other. Behavioral traits are, based on genes as well, I think. How else does any given life form knows ...
We are not troubled by things, but by the opinions we have of things. -Epictetus