On Sun, Apr 02, 2017 at 12:43:17PM -0700, Brent Meeker wrote: > > > On 4/1/2017 11:55 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: > >Am 01.04.2017 um 23:50 schrieb Brent Meeker: > >> > >> > >>On 4/1/2017 12:39 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote: > > > >... > > > >>>I would like to note that in the paper that I have referenced > >>>discusses a completely different question. Provided that one could > >>>explain religion in the framework of evolutionary advantages, the > >>>question arises whether one should also try to explain atheism in > >>>the same framework. > >>> > >>>In the paper there are references to empirical studies that show > >>>that atheists have lower birthrates. > >> > >>It's also true that atheists have a higher proportion of their > >>children survive to adulthood. These are simply correlates: in > >>technological, educated societies people have fewer children and have > >>fewer of them die young - and they are less superstitious. > > > >It might be good to check if this statement complies with > >empirical findings. > > Just compare statistics for a nation with lots of non-believers, e.g > France or Sweden, to those with a high proportion of believers, e.g. > Afghanistan or Ethiopia. Which is not to say it's a cause/effect > relationship. Where life is hard and medical services are sparse > people cling to religion and their children often die - so they have > more children to compensate...and having more children contributes > to their poverty. All the major religions encourage fertility. > Religion as a political force aims to win by demographics. >
What about very religious societies such as the US? It always seemed a bit of an outlier to me. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow [email protected] Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
