> William Olander wrote:
>
> The reason I absolutely LOATH the Midichlorians is because it makes
> the force quantifiable. It's got this whole 1985 or what's the other
> big brother type book? I forget the name. Anyway it's like reading
> someone's DNA and saying: "Oh, this one is going to become a criminal
> and this one will become a doctor." I know many of us are scientists
> and what not here but.... The best thing Lucas ever creates was the
> Force. The Force is a de-personalized representation of God. God
> without the beard and sandals. God without being wrathful or loving or
> anything. The spark of the divine that exists in all things the way
> the Native American 'Great Spirit' did. Now suddenly it's a virus?
>
But this has always been implied. "The force is strong in our family"
and similair lines indicate forceiness is genetic in some way.
