Introduction

Both biological and religious systems are dynamic. ey are constantly changing and developing in relation to one another. I view the relation between them much the same as the relationship between genotype and phenotype, between the genetic “code” and how the code is expressed. e case has recently been made by Day (2007) that the anomalous relation between genotype and phenotype parallels the anomalous relation between neurons and mental states. While genes may loosely be said to code for the observable and outer characteristics of an organism, outside the laboratory they never do so in a deterministic fashion. Context, environment and personal history – what have been termed epigenetics – play a mediating role. Without the story of epigenetics, genetics means nothing.