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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> The problem is, as I see it, not so much as how much time is spent, but
> that the advances in scientific knowledge and understanding are coming
> so fast now that no one, even the geneticists themselves, can't keep up.

Yet, one of the reasons genetics (the study of genetics, that is) is changing 
so fast is not so much because knowledge is being augmented and refined, but 
rather so much of the thinking has proven to be dead end and blind alley.  
Much of what was "known" about genetics thirty years ago turns out to be just 
... 
not true.  I can't recall enough of the details right off the cuff (because 
of a genetic feeble mind) but I do recall genetic breakthrough after 
breakthrough which a few years later turns out to be not so, a dead end in 
thinking.  
"Scientists discover the gene that causes (fill in the blank)"  but a few 
years 
later it turns out to not withstand scrutiny.

Gene:"This is a good time to say something about belief, whose sister is  
truth. We all have our unique beliefs. We hold to them because they  
are necessary for us to go forward. They are based on all that we  
have known and done."

Counter balancing all the testimonials about this or that person who had this 
or that genetic makeup and what about them?   are all the equally numerous 
stories of people who did better, sometimes miraculously better, simply 
because 
they thought they would, believed they would.   To many of us, we've accepted 
the evidence that the Mind/Body connection far swamps out the effects of 
genetics.