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Genes can describe the form or fate of a complex organism in likelihoods and probabilities—but they cannot accurately describe the form or fate itself.
“a devil, a born devil, on whose nature, nurture can never stick.”
Genes must carry out programmed responses to environments—otherwise, there would be no conserved form. But they must also leave exactly enough room for the vagaries of chance to stick. We call this intersection “fate.” We call our responses to it “choice.”
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
Every genetic “illness” is a mismatch between an organism’s genome and its environment.
