(June 11, 2015 at 4:33 pm)SteveII Wrote: I disagree that this is appeal to numbers. It is a psychological observation of people's choices and is therefore data that can be used as evidence that there might be more than the material world.
It's not about people's choices, more about birthrates. You make it sound like everyone starts out on a blank slate with no parental or cultural influence and then picks. First, like I said before, the whole premise is flawed because of the identification shift that came with the fall of communism.