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.
Dominic Johnson tries to explain this empirical fact in
evolutionary terms.
I looked up Johnson's papers. Thanks for pointing him out. Some
the theories in "The Elephant in the Room" apply equally to current
politics, e.g. in section 3e:
Indeed, Johnson has a paper
Dominic D. P. Johnson, Bradley A. Thayer, The evolution of offensive
realism: Survival under anarchy from the Pleistocene to the present,
Politics and the Life Sciences, v. 35, N 1, p. 1 — 26, 2016.
that is pretty similar.
Evgenii
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