So, obviously not how natural selection works. You'd have to be more likely to die without having kids due to lack of religion for that to make sense.
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.
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.
Well here is my though process: Choosing not to have kids (for reasons you point out) == not having faith that things will work out, both for the child and yourself.
What if religion isn't the root cause... Lets play a game...
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.
You're obviously right. It's funny that folks who dislike or reject religion tend to claim to believe in evolution, but tend to fail to see that religion guides us along the most evolutionary path possible (be fruitful and multiply)
Without it, human becomes alone, depressed, savage, has shorter life-span. And less likely to generate offsprings.