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Worshipping Waterfalls: The Evolution of Belief

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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Is the World Moving in the Right Direction?

secular societies are surprisingly similar to religious societis that day they succeed. They have watchful institutions and norms that encourage co operation, as long as you're part of the ing group or community. Do you think it's inevitable that some day we won't need big gods or religion? Possibly. For example, as society secularize, fertility rates decline quite massively. So even secularization is happening in the world. But at the same time these secularized societies are shrinking because of decline ing fertility rates.

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