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The genetics (and heritability more generally) of religiosity are fairly well understood.

• jfengel 3y ago
  Fairly, but Western countries started as very religious and are losing that at varying rates. Heritability is real but far from absolute. All other things being equal I'd expect it to reach an equilibrium. I don't think all other things are equal in this case, and nonbelief becomes more attractive over time (for better or worse).
• ascar 3y ago
  Are they? Would you elaborate on it or link some reading material? I've never heard of religion being heritary and your claim is pretty strong to just throw out there without any additional information.
  • skissane 3y ago
    One 2005 twin study [0] found religiosity was approximately 40% genetic. [1] argues that pro-religion alleles are likely to become more common over time, since in the contemporary world religious people (on average) have more children than the non-religious It seems unlikely there is any single "God gene". Rather, certain personality traits (such as agreeableness) increase the likelihood of a person accepting religion, and genetics contributes to those traits, which in turn indirectly contributes to religiosity [0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15745438/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15745438/ [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3125629/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3125629/