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{{Cquote|In 1900, the year that [[Nietzsche]] died, there were 8 million Christians in Africa. Now there are 335 million. And the growth rate continues to accelerate. God wasn’t dead. God was reborn. Indeed, far from being the century in which religion went away, for both Christianity and Islam, the 20th century was numerically the most successful century since Christ was crucified and Muhammad gave his farewell sermon on Mount Arafat. By 2010, there were 2.2 billion Christians in the world and 1.6 billion Muslims, 31% and 23% of the world population respectively. The secularisation hypothesis is a European myth, a piece of myopic parochialism that shows how narrow our worldview continues to be.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2016/may/26/the-world-is-getting-more-religious-because-the-poor-go-for-god The world is getting more religious, because the poor go for God] by Nile Frasier, ''The Guardian''</ref>}}

{{Cquote|In 1900, the year that [[Nietzsche]] died, there were 8 million Christians in Africa. Now there are 335 million. And the growth rate continues to accelerate. God wasn’t dead. God was reborn. Indeed, far from being the century in which religion went away, for both Christianity and Islam, the 20th century was numerically the most successful century since Christ was crucified and Muhammad gave his farewell sermon on Mount Arafat. By 2010, there were 2.2 billion Christians in the world and 1.6 billion Muslims, 31% and 23% of the world population respectively. The secularisation hypothesis is a European myth, a piece of myopic parochialism that shows how narrow our worldview continues to be.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2016/may/26/the-world-is-getting-more-religious-because-the-poor-go-for-god The world is getting more religious, because the poor go for God] by Nile Frasier, ''The Guardian''</ref>}}

===  Ellis, Hoskin, Dutton and Nyborg journal on fertility and secularism  ===

==  Ellis, Hoskin, Dutton and Nyborg: Fertility and secularization thesis ==

The abstract for the journal article ''The Future of Secularism: a Biologically Informed Theory Supplemented with Cross-Cultural Evidence'' published in the journal ''Evolutionary Psychological Science'' indicates:

The abstract for the journal article ''The Future of Secularism: a Biologically Informed Theory Supplemented with Cross-Cultural Evidence'' published in the journal ''Evolutionary Psychological Science'' indicates:

{{Cquote|After reviewing the pertinent evidence and arguments, we examined some aspects of the [[secularization thesis|secularization hypothesis]] from what is termed a biologically informed perspective. Based on large samples of college students in [[Malaysia]] and the [[United States|USA]], religiosity, religious affiliation, and parental fertility were measured using self-reports. Three religiosity indicators were factor analyzed, resulting in an index for religiosity. Results reveal that average parental fertility varied considerably according to religious groups, with [[Islam|Muslims]] being the most religious and the most fertile and [[Judaism|Jews]] and [[Buddhism|Buddhists]] being the least. Within most religious groupings, religiosity was positively associated with parental fertility. While cross-sectional in nature, when our results are combined with evidence that both religiosity and fertility are substantially heritable traits, findings are consistent with view that earlier trends toward secularization ...are currently being counter-balanced by genetic and reproductive forces. ... secularism is likely to undergo a decline throughout the remainder of the twenty-first century, including [[Europe]] and other industrial societies.<ref>[''The Future of Secularism: a Biologically Informed Theory Supplemented with Cross-Cultural Evidence'' by Lee Ellis, Anthony W. Hoskin, Edward Dutton and Helmuth Nyborg,''Evolutionary Psychological Science''  08 March 2017, pp 1–19</ref>}}

{{Cquote|After reviewing the pertinent evidence and arguments, we examined some aspects of the [[secularization thesis|secularization hypothesis]] from what is termed a biologically informed perspective. Based on large samples of college students in [[Malaysia]] and the [[United States|USA]], religiosity, religious affiliation, and parental fertility were measured using self-reports. Three religiosity indicators were factor analyzed, resulting in an index for religiosity. Results reveal that average parental fertility varied considerably according to religious groups, with [[Islam|Muslims]] being the most religious and the most fertile and [[Judaism|Jews]] and [[Buddhism|Buddhists]] being the least. Within most religious groupings, religiosity was positively associated with parental fertility. While cross-sectional in nature, when our results are combined with evidence that both religiosity and fertility are substantially heritable traits, findings are consistent with view that earlier trends toward secularization ...are currently being counter-balanced by genetic and reproductive forces. ... secularism is likely to undergo a decline throughout the remainder of the twenty-first century, including [[Europe]] and other industrial societies.<ref>[https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40806-017-0090-z ''The Future of Secularism: a Biologically Informed Theory Supplemented with Cross-Cultural Evidence'' by Lee Ellis, Anthony W. Hoskin, Edward Dutton and Helmuth Nyborg,''Evolutionary Psychological Science''  08 March 2017, pp 1–19</ref>}}

 

== New Atheism as a reaction to the failure of the secularization thesis ==

== New Atheism as a reaction to the failure of the secularization thesis ==