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When the [[Cold War]] began in 1947, there have been a few international wars and many civil wars with outside actors, such as the [[Vietnam War]] and the [[Korean War]].
When the [[Cold War]] began in 1947, there have been a few international wars and many civil wars with outside actors, such as the [[Vietnam War]] and the [[Korean War]].
== World War I, World War II and Darwinism ==
Historically, the most prominent and vocal defenders of the [[evolution|theory of evolution]] which employs [[methodological naturalism]] have been atheists or [[agnosticism|agnostics]].<ref name="Batten and Sarfati">Multiple references:
* Batten, Dr. Don (December 1997). [https://creation.com/a-whos-who-of-evolutionists "A ''Who’s Who'' of evolutionists"]. Creation Ministries International. Originally published in ''Creation'' 20(1):32. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
* Sarfati, Jonathan, Ph.D., F.M. (1999). [https://creation.com/refuting-evolution-chapter-1-evolution-creation-science-religion-facts-bias "Chapter 1: Facts and bias", ''Refuting Evolution'']. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
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The founder of [[Darwinism]], [[Charles Darwin]], was an [[agnosticism|agnostic]]/[[weak atheism|weak atheist]] (see: [[Religious views of Charles Darwin]]).
There is historical evidence indicating that [[Darwinism]] was a causal factor for [[WWI]] and [[WWII]] (see: [[Irreligion/religion and war]] and [[World War I and Darwinism]]).
== Academic studies consistently challenge link between religion and war ==
[[File:NorthKorea location.png|thumbnail|right|225px|Countries with high levels of irreligion/[[atheism]], such as [[North Korea]], haven't been the most peaceful countries.<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/11/14/religions-war-cause-responsible-evidence_n_6156878.html Does Religion Really Cause War - And Do Atheists Have Something To Answer for?] by Louise Ridley, assistant news editor at the Huffington Post UK</ref><ref>["https://books.google.com/books?id=bR0hIC0Xhb0C&q=Irreligion+in+North+Korea&pg=PA799#v=snippet&q=Irreligion%20in%20North%20Korea&f=false Countries and Territories of the World"]</ref><ref>The Korean state promotes Juche. Juche, North Korea maintains, is a "man-centered ideology" in which "man is the master of everything and decides everything". (Lee, Kyo Duk (2004). "'Peaceful Utilization of the DMZ' as a National Strategy". The successor theory of North Korea. Korean Institute for National Reunification. page 4. ISBN 978-8984792258.</ref>
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Academic studies and other research consistently challenge the link between religion and war.<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/11/14/religions-war-cause-responsible-evidence_n_6156878.html Does Religion Really Cause War - And Do Atheists Have Something To Answer for?] by Louise Ridley, assistant news editor at the Huffington Post UK</ref> See: [[Irreligion/religion and war]]
Louise Ridley in her article entitled ''Does Religion Really Cause War - And Do Atheists Have Something To Answer For?'':
{{Cquote|But academic studies consistently challenge the link between [[religion]] and war. [http://www.visionofhumanity.org/#/page/news/1085 Research published in October from the New York and Sydney-based Institute for Economics and Peace] looked at all of the wars that took place in 2013. It found no 'general causal relationship' between religion and conflict.
In fact, religious elements played no role at all in 14 (40%) of the 35 armed conflicts in the research, and only five (14%) had religious elements as their main cause, the report showed. All of the wars had multiple causes, and the much more common motivation was opposition to a government, or to the economic, ideological, political or social systems of a state, which was named as a main factor in nearly two thirds of the cases studied.
The ''Encyclopedia of Wars'', an extensive study published in 2008, chronicles 1,763 wars throughout human history. It names just 123 as 'religious in nature' – a little under 7%.
The [http://economicsandpeace.org/ Institute for Economics and Peace] report also found that having less religion in a country doesn’t make it more peaceful. The proportion of atheists in a country had no bearing on levels of peace.
Countries with the highest levels of [[atheism]] – mainly [[communism|communist]] or former communist states like [[Russia]] and the [[Czech Republic]] – were not necessarily the most peaceful. [[North Korea]], which has one of the lowest rates of people practising religion, was one of ten 'least peaceful' countries in world last year, according to the report.<ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/11/14/religions-war-cause-responsible-evidence_n_6156878.html Does Religion Really Cause War - And Do Atheists Have Something To Answer for?] by Louise Ridley, assistant news editor at the Huffington Post UK</ref>}}
==Further reading==
==Further reading==