It's in your genes

Despite not scoring the best for Bio, I do have a deep interest in evolution, natural selection and how the animal kingdoms work. I mean, we are, in a biological sense, complex animals ourselves.

What we A levels students learn in Biology is that speciation occurs when there’s a certain advantageous mutation for an advantageous allele that produces an adaptive phenotype. This organism will achieve greater reproductive success and pass on these “good” genes to the rest of the spieces and the species eventually “evolves” (I’m not sure if I’m correct with my use of the terms though.)

But has anyone ever wondered if the reason why the girl that you admire so much doesn’t reciprocate your love for her is simply because you are made up of pretty darn bad genes compared to someone else despite of how hard you try to please her? 

Has anyone ever wondered whether the reason why that smart kid in class who studied so much less than you constantly thrashes you in a subject that you studied so hard for is because you are made up of genes that limit your mental capacity?

I have learned that our genetics makeup plays a huge role in our life and it cannot be ignored. Ever wondered why it’s so hard for obese people or people with certain diseases find it so hard to get married? It’s because they aren’t desired by others because it is believed that they have bad “genes” which will result in bad children being produced. And yet these “rejects” might have been a much greater person than someone blessed with good health and attractive looks.

Yes, genes matter, they limit you. But genetic determinism is false. We are not merely the sum of our genes. We can be the best that “we” can be. 

And perhaps God being all-knowing and being the creator of all biology, will see us for our “raw” actions and not merely by the product of what our genes and upbringing makes us do.

A man who has a mutation in the gene coding for MAO-A (monoamine oxidase, basically it *can* make someone more prone to violence/depression etc.) and brought up in an abusive background who does one small moral action may be more morally praiseworthy in God’s eye vs someone who was brought up in a good family with good genes who does something that should just be expected of him.

(Disclaimer: The terminologies that have been used here might've been flawed especially when it comes to the use of biological terms :P )