Genesis in our Genome

No Abrahamic religion makes room for any god but its own. In his primacy we have inherited none of the Mesopotamian gods but his singular aim of self-preservation. Selection pressure kills belief in gods the way it killed the dinosaurs. Every living thing, and beliefs are living things, has outcompeted and so displaced something else. Genesis directs us to subdue nature and multiply because the one demands the other. Nature is ruthless and relentless but she remembers every mortality. Our genome bears the memory of ice ages, famines, epidemics, and war. Forever after, it always will. For as long as we retell Noah’s flood story Enlil and Enki go with it, just beneath the water’s surface.