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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>}}
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 religious people tend to live healthier, longer lives than atheists.
The authors of the study say that as societies have progressed, the number of atheists has grown. During pre-industrialization times, societies were highly religious. The community ritual of worship helped individuals develop strong social bonds and to choose reproductive partners that would pass on strong genes to the next generation.
But, slowly as societies drifted, we became less religious, and with the rise of atheism came increased levels of mutations among humans, the researchers say.
The study was published in the Evolutionary Psychological Science on Dec. 20.
“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:
[[Vox Day|Theodore Beale]] wrote: