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It has nothing to do with religion. It just so happens that population is self regulated. If infant mortality is high and the world is more dangerous people hav

It has nothing to do with religion. It just so happens that population is self regulated. If infant mortality is high and the world is more dangerous people have more children. This is also true for almost any species.

toomuchtodo 5y ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2723861/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2723861/ > Using data from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), we show that women who report that religion is “very important” in their everyday life have both higher fertility and higher intended fertility than those saying religion is “somewhat important” or “not important.” Factors such as unwanted fertility, age at childbearing, or degree of fertility postponement seem not to contribute to religiosity differentials in fertility. This answer prompts more fundamental questions: what is the nature of this greater “religiosity”? And why do the more religious want more children? We show that those saying religion is more important have more traditional gender and family attitudes and that these attitudinal differences account for a substantial part of the fertility differential. We speculate regarding other contributing causes. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/05/12/charted-the-religions-that-make-the-most-babies/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/05/12/chart... https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/H6HHJUXA2A3H5PWYKGPXW5ECYE.png&w=916 https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.c... > But there are plenty of other interesting nuggets in the latest survey two. One that caught my eye: the stark differences in fertility rates between members of various religious traditions, which I charted above.
- jdmoreira 5y ago
  The problem is that correlation is not causality. The same thing that makes people religious (holding on to an old reality/world view) is totally in character with having more children for the exact same reason. Also religious people are more likely to want to preserve the status quo at all costs, which includes obsolete family structures. The fact is most people are becoming secular by the day and most people are having less children. Sampling from the laggards means nothing. God is already dead. It just takes a while to get rid of the body.
  - toomuchtodo 5y ago
    Maybe we're just talking passed each other? I agree with everything in your comment.

toomuchtodo 5y ago

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2723861/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2723861/ > Using data from the 2002 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), we show that women who report that religion is “very important” in their everyday life have both higher fertility and higher intended fertility than those saying religion is “somewhat important” or “not important.” Factors such as unwanted fertility, age at childbearing, or degree of fertility postponement seem not to contribute to religiosity differentials in fertility. This answer prompts more fundamental questions: what is the nature of this greater “religiosity”? And why do the more religious want more children? We show that those saying religion is more important have more traditional gender and family attitudes and that these attitudinal differences account for a substantial part of the fertility differential. We speculate regarding other contributing causes. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/05/12/charted-the-religions-that-make-the-most-babies/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/05/12/chart... https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/H6HHJUXA2A3H5PWYKGPXW5ECYE.png&w=916 https://arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.c... > But there are plenty of other interesting nuggets in the latest survey two. One that caught my eye: the stark differences in fertility rates between members of various religious traditions, which I charted above.

jdmoreira 5y ago
The problem is that correlation is not causality. The same thing that makes people religious (holding on to an old reality/world view) is totally in character with having more children for the exact same reason. Also religious people are more likely to want to preserve the status quo at all costs, which includes obsolete family structures. The fact is most people are becoming secular by the day and most people are having less children. Sampling from the laggards means nothing. God is already dead. It just takes a while to get rid of the body.
- toomuchtodo 5y ago
  Maybe we're just talking passed each other? I agree with everything in your comment.