Steve Jones atheist We atheists sometimes congratulate ourselves that the incidence of religious belief is going down.

But religious people have more children. Where are people having the most children? It’s in the tropics and in Africa. It’s clearly the case that the future will involve an increase in religious populations and a decrease in scepticism. We may not need more scientists but more theologists.

~ Steve Jones, pictured right, professor of genetics at University College London, speaking at the Hay Literary Festival on the population decline of “religiously sceptical” countries in combination with a population rise in  European countries combined with rapid population growth in Christian countries, The Independent, May 26

Interesting side note from article:

However [Jones] did admit that the he’d be “pushed” to argue with the statement that the “New Testament was one of the greatest political documents ever written.” He added, “Out entire society is based on tenets of the New Testament.”

[HT: LifeSiteNews.com]

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