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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels
It's possible. I'm not fond of answers that lead to nature/nurture speculation, I used to be more of the opinion that our personalities are formed more through experience, but these days I'm starting to think more that personality is as much in our genes as hair colour or anything else.
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Genes are just a chemical pattern. They are only half the story. Humans are living beings. Genes ARE NOT alive. Whatever force animates and gives life, is that which shapes the personality. The person is an entity which exists separate from the genes, rather, which experiences the genes, chemicals, and physicality of the body. Further, even without a body or without sexual chemicals, people desire sex. So nature AND nurture and thrown right out the equation, and again, we have to seek something deeper, transcendental, and yes, spiritual.
Atheism still has a place for the spiritual, for the transcendental, because there are aspects of the human experience which can not be explained simply by biochemistry, no matter how eloquently theorized or explained.