From Dr. Bill's link:
Perhaps our morality is grounded in Cosmic Ancestry. Our Cosmic Ancestors would have had access to the gene or array of genes for altruism. They would have programmed altruism to activate as soon as possible, because they would have been concerned for the success of the whole enterprise. That way, the more highly organized forms of life wouldn't be at the mercy of chance, hoping for heroism and love to emerge out of nowhere. It's possible.
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Our Cosmic Ancestors would want us to know about them. We can be pretty sure of that by putting ourselves into their shoes. Perhaps they installed in our genes a genetic memory of themselves. Such a genetic memory would account for the persistence of religions around the world. And it would explain in a new way why the mythologies of different religions are so similar, as the philospher Joseph Campbell tells us.
Taking the theory a step further, from microbes to beings,
the vistas of our new genetic technologies certainly open some intriguing possibilites, don't they?...since an advanced race would surely have had this knowledge.
