Genes, Determinism and God

How does genetic variation impact on behavioural differences and how does this relate to free will and personal identity? Denis Alexander examines these questions.

1. Human personhood fragmented?: nature-nurture discourse from antiquity to Galton; 2. Reifying the fragments?: nature-nurture discourse from Galton to the twenty-first century; 3. The impact of the new genetics?: how contemporary biology is changing the landscape of ideas; 4. Reshaping the matrix: integrating the human in contemporary biology; 5. Is the worm determined?: gene variation and behaviour in animals; 6. Prisoners of the genes?: understanding quantitative behavioural genetics; 7. Behavioural molecules?: understanding molecular behavioural genetics; 8. Mensa, mediocrity or meritocracy?: the genetics of intelligence, religion and politics; 9. Gay genes?: genetics and sexual orientation; 10. Not my fault?: the use of genetics in the legal system; 11. Causality, emergence and freedom?: tackling some tough philosophical questions; 12. Made in the image of God?: a conversation between genetics and theology.