In the lecture we were looking at Quantitative Trait Loci, places on chromosomes that have genes which cause something that you can measure. For example height, foot size or number of ridges on fingerprints, but not things that are just yes or no, like your ear lobes being attached or not – mine are not.
I turns out that these things can be difficult to pinpoint on the genome because the genes need to have a big enough effect to be statisticlly measured, but if the effect is too big then the results can be confounded. So you can have an idea of where it might be but the range of where it might be is really big.
It got me thinking, I wonder if this was God’s way of fool-proofing his design so that when we got to the scientific stage we are at it wouldn’t be easy for us to try to ‘fix’ ourselves. Undoubtedly there are good things coming out of science and medecine but there is always the risk of going too far. With every step one takes they justify their need to take another one.