Conversations Beyond Science and Religion Dawson Church and the Genie in Your Genes
b'In the governing world model, the body is a machine made up of genes.\\xa0 These genes, like parts to a car, control the performance and destiny of the body.\\xa0 The so-called\\xa0central dogma (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vghLxGAkft8)\\xa0of genetics, authored by Francis Crick, one of the discoverers of the DNA molecule, holds that genes are fixed information-generating particles that tell proteins how to form into bodies.\\xa0 The information only goes one way: outward toward bodies, not inward.\\xa0 But the new field of epigenetics is proving the central dogma wrong.\\xa0 Not only does the environment influence the way genes express themselves, but so do thoughts and beliefs.\\xa0 In his book,\\xa0The Genie in Your Genes (http://www.amazon.com/The-Genie-Your-Genes-Epigenetic/dp/1604150114#), this week\'s guest,\\xa0Dawson Church (http://www.genieinyourgenes.com/aboutauthor.html),\\xa0lays out the case for how the human spirit is more powerful than our genes.\\xa0 Listen in as Philip and Dawson discuss how epigenetics provides scientific evidence that we have greater control over our well-being that we ever imagined.'