Religious people tend to have more children, it's got nothing to do with enlightenment.
In the developed world religiosity is falling but so are birth rates.
In the developed world religiosity is falling but so are birth rates.
Without it, human becomes alone, depressed, savage, has shorter life-span. And less likely to generate offsprings.
Religion is not key.
Without it, people don't become alone/depressed/etc.
The offspring thing is that wealthy people/nations/communities tend to have less kids since its more expensive per kid and seen as more burdensome to their lives.
- is becoming less religious
- most in that group are becoming alone/depressed/etc.
- It's expensive and burdensome for that group to have offsprings
Then that group is essentially a dead-end and those practices will not expand to more groups. Them being rich isn't helping them.
How is that not a form of natural selection?
There is no link between belief and loneliness.
I live in a largely secular country, people are choosing to not have kids due to the environment and the general satisfaction in their lives without kids.
The same reasons (education and social security) which counter dogma also allow people to make educated choices for their lives.
Religion provides this faith.
It also cures loneliness:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1386462
https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/A-Loneliness-...
If a group:
- is becoming less religious - is becoming more gay - is becoming less white - is becoming more literate - is becoming less starved - is becoming better at typing - is becoming worse at blacksmithing - is becoming better at curing diseases - is becoming worse at writing with a quill - is becoming more vaccinated - is becoming less likely to drive an oldsmobile. - is becoming more likely to drive a toyota. - is becoming more urban - is becoming less rural - is becoming more divided in ideology - is becoming more likely to believe in election fraud
OR (my personal hunch) - is bad at causation/correlation
> Then that group is essentially a dead-end and those practices will not expand to more groups. Them being rich isn't helping them.
>How is that not a form of natural selection?
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Why can't it be the vaccines and toyotas that are causing depression? Maybe darwin should have warned us that city birds don't mate.
Maybe its just bad causation/correlation when viewed through the lens of one facet of historical change.