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The abstract for the 2017 journal article ''The Mutant Says in His Heart, “There Is No [[God]]”: the Rejection of Collective Religiosity Centred Around the Worship of Moral Gods Is Associated with High Mutational Load'' which was published in the journal ''[[Evolution]]ary [[Psychology|Psychological]] Science'' indicates:

The abstract for the 2017 journal article ''The Mutant Says in His Heart, “There Is No [[God]]”: the Rejection of Collective Religiosity Centred Around the Worship of Moral Gods Is Associated with High Mutational Load'' which was published in the journal ''[[Evolution]]ary [[Psychology|Psychological]] Science'' indicates:

{{Cquote|Industrialisation leads to relaxed selection and thus the accumulation of fitness-damaging genetic mutations. We argue that religion is a selected trait that would be highly sensitive to mutational load. We further argue that a specific form of religiousness was selected for in complex societies up until industrialisation based around the collective worship of moral gods. With the relaxation of selection, we predict the degeneration of this form of religion and diverse deviations from it. These deviations, however, would correlate with the same indicators because they would all be underpinned by mutational load. We test this hypothesis using two very different deviations: atheism and paranormal belief. We examine associations between these deviations and four indicators of mutational load: (1) poor general health, (2) autism, (3) fluctuating asymmetry, and (4) left-handedness. A systematic literature review combined with primary research on handedness demonstrates that atheism and/or paranormal belief is associated with all of these indicators of high mutational load.<ref>''[https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40806-017-0133-5 The Mutant Says in His Heart, “There Is No God”: the Rejection of Collective Religiosity Centred Around the Worship of Moral Gods Is Associated with High Mutational Load]'', ''Evolutionary Psychological Science'' by Edward Dutton, Guy Madison and Curtis Dunkel, pp 1–12</ref>}}

{{Cquote|Industrialisation leads to relaxed selection and thus the accumulation of fitness-damaging genetic mutations. We argue that religion is a selected trait that would be highly sensitive to mutational load. We further argue that a specific form of religiousness was selected for in complex societies up until industrialisation based around the collective worship of moral gods. With the relaxation of selection, we predict the degeneration of this form of religion and diverse deviations from it. These deviations, however, would correlate with the same indicators because they would all be underpinned by mutational load. We test this hypothesis using two very different deviations: atheism and paranormal belief. We examine associations between these deviations and four indicators of mutational load: (1) poor general health, (2) autism, (3) fluctuating asymmetry, and (4) left-handedness. A systematic literature review combined with primary research on handedness demonstrates that atheism and/or paranormal belief is associated with all of these indicators of high mutational load.<ref>''[https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40806-017-0133-5 The Mutant Says in His Heart, “There Is No God”: the Rejection of Collective Religiosity Centred Around the Worship of Moral Gods Is Associated with High Mutational Load]'', ''Evolutionary Psychological Science'' by Edward Dutton, Guy Madison and Curtis Dunkel, pp 1–12</ref>}}

[[Image:Mouse.jpg|thumb|left|200px|[[Vox Day|Theodore Beale]] wrote: "This would also put [https://mouseutopia.blogspot.co.uk/ Bruce Charlton's Mouse Utopia observations] into context, as atheism appears to be one aspect of the [[nihilism|nihilistic]] despair that is a consequence of the increased prevalence of genetic inferiority that results from easier circumstances."<ref>[http://voxday.blogspot.com/2017/12/genetically-inferior.html Genetically Inferior by [[Vox Day|Theodore Beale]]</ref>]]

[[Image:Mouse.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Theodore Beale wrote: "This would also put [https://mouseutopia.blogspot.co.uk/ Bruce Charlton's Mouse Utopia observations] into context, as atheism appears to be one aspect of the [[nihilism|nihilistic]] despair that is a consequence of the increased prevalence of genetic inferiority that results from easier circumstances."<ref>[http://voxday.blogspot.com/2017/12/genetically-inferior.html Genetically Inferior by Theodore Beale</ref>]]

Suraj Radhakrishnan wrote in ''International Business Times'' article ''Atheism Causes Genetic Mutation? Study Finds [[Atheism and health|Religious People To Be Healthier]]'':

Suraj Radhakrishnan wrote in ''International Business Times'' article ''Atheism Causes Genetic Mutation? Study Finds [[Atheism and health|Religious People To Be Healthier]]'':

{{Cquote|...a study has linked a lack of belief in god to an increase in genetic mutations in the general population. The study found that [[Atheism and life expectancy|religious people tend to live healthier, longer lives than atheists]].

{{Cquote|...a study has linked a lack of belief in god to an increase in genetic mutations in the general population. The study found that [[Atheism and life expectancy|religious people tend to live healthier, longer lives than atheists]].

“Maybe the positive relationship between religiousness and health is not causal—it's not that being religious makes you less stressed so less ill. Rather, religious people are a genetically normal remnant population from preindustrial times, and the rest of us are mutants who'd have died as children back then,” lead author Edward Dutton from the Ulster Institute for Social Research told Newsweek.<ref>[https://www.ibtimes.com/atheism-causes-genetic-mutation-study-finds-religious-people-be-healthier-2632628 Atheism Causes Genetic Mutation? Study Finds Religious People To Be Healthier] by Suraj Radhakrishnan, ''International Business Times'</ref>}}

“Maybe the positive relationship between religiousness and health is not causal—it's not that being religious makes you less stressed so less ill. Rather, religious people are a genetically normal remnant population from preindustrial times, and the rest of us are mutants who'd have died as children back then,” lead author Edward Dutton from the Ulster Institute for Social Research told Newsweek.<ref>[https://www.ibtimes.com/atheism-causes-genetic-mutation-study-finds-religious-people-be-healthier-2632628 Atheism Causes Genetic Mutation? Study Finds Religious People To Be Healthier] by Suraj Radhakrishnan, ''International Business Times'</ref>}}

[[Vox Day|Theodore Beale]] wrote: "This would also put [https://mouseutopia.blogspot.co.uk/ Bruce Charlton's Mouse Utopia observations] into context, as atheism appears to be one aspect of the [[nihilism|nihilistic]] despair that is a consequence of the increased prevalence of genetic inferiority that results from easier circumstances."<ref>[http://voxday.blogspot.com/2017/12/genetically-inferior.html Genetically Inferior] by [[Vox Day|Theodore Beale]]</ref>

Theodore Beale wrote: "This would also put [https://mouseutopia.blogspot.co.uk/ Bruce Charlton's Mouse Utopia observations] into context, as atheism appears to be one aspect of the [[nihilism|nihilistic]] despair that is a consequence of the increased prevalence of genetic inferiority that results from easier circumstances."<ref>[http://voxday.blogspot.com/2017/12/genetically-inferior.html Genetically Inferior]</ref>

== Defending atheist mutational load theory: Dr. Edward Dutton and Guy Madison ==

== Defending atheist mutational load theory: Dr. Edward Dutton and Guy Madison ==