Religion is a self-sustaining beast. It reproduces - it's got 'evangelizing' parts and 'have lots of babies' parts - also some vestigial 'don't abort' and 'get married before sex' parts too, which were ideal in its original environment, but now no longer useful. 1/
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I see. And for anti promiscuity, we have paternity tests!
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Why is it important that the child is "Genetically" yours?
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The inverse is true, isn't it? The more likely it is that children will survive, the better the strategy of "shotgun as many out as possible" becomes. Think about it -- in the past too many babies meant getting punished by disease and lack of food. No longer.
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I've seen a lot of people say something adjacent to this -- "higher proportion of kids survive so you dont need as many." But not as an evolutionary argument, rather as a self actualizing argument. The evolution side is easier to rebut, but I think both are wrong.
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I think you have it backwards. Anti abortion is a relatively recent view. The rule was impractical back then because infant mortality was so high, but with modern medicine they can "afford" to be more strict.
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A strong punch to the gut has been around for a while though
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