(June 11, 2015 at 9:25 am)SteveII Wrote: So, what I am hearing is that the God Delusion thrives where there is lower education levels. It would follow that at least after awhile, highly educated countries should see precipitous drops in religion--despite birth rates. While that has been the prediction for hundreds of years, that's not the case. There are more Christians and Muslims every year--even in developed countries.. Perhaps your arguments are not as convincing as you think they are.
I'm not sure where you get the "prediction forhundreds of years" from. The relationship between religiosity and intelligence isn't simple for a multitude of reasions, but there is a reltionship: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity...telligence
Well certainly in the UK the number of Christians is dropping fast, whilst Atheism is doing the opposite. Islam is however on the rise.
