In local religious newspaper, I recently read an article that claimed teenage pregnancy and abortion skyrocketed back in the 1950's when coincidentally Evilution was started to be widely be taught in public schools.
Hmmm... I thought if that was the case then some European and Asian countries must be a real mess where evolution is widely accepted. I found the below paper and thought about pointing it out to the author of the newspaper article, but realized that it would be a fools errand so I refrained.
Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies
Some quotes:
From Reference writes:
Life spans tend to decrease as rates of religiosity rise
From Reference writes:
There is evidence that within the U.S. strong disparities in religious belief versus acceptance of evolution are correlated with similarly varying rates of societal dysfunction, the strongly theistic, anti-evolution south and mid-west having markedly worse homicide, mortality, STD, youth pregnancy, marital and related problems than the northeast where societal conditions, secularization, and acceptance of evolution approach European norms (Aral and Holmes; Beeghley, Doyle, 2002).
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