Religiosity and Fertility

A fascinating article about the relationship between religiosity and fertility can be found here http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/faith-equals-fertility

Basically it seems that religious communities (of whatever religion) produce more offspring than agnostics and atheists. If this is so, it should help Richard Dawkins' arguments for evolution but not his position as an atheist. Atheists will gradually evolve out of existence as the more religious communities increase in number.

The jury is still out on the reasons for this phenomenon. It may be that believers have larger families because of what they believe, or it could be that having a larger family predisposes you to be more open to religious belief. If the latter is the case then Dawkins and his motley crew of atheists are stuffed again ..... if they try and increase the population of atheists by having larger families they are more likely to "get religion" and their children will follow suite, so the population of atheists will actually go down. Perhaps Dr Dawkins ought to carve a niche for himself and become a specialist in "religious evolution" rather than just general evolution.