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Re:Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa. by jbrechtel on Sunday August 12, 2012 @02:57PM (#4373239)
This talk by Hans Rosling makes a pretty reasonable case for decoupling the notion of religion and birth rates.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/hans_rosling_religions_and_...

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Re:Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa. by genwin on Sunday August 12, 2012 @03:05PM (#4373261)
Does he explain away the correlation in Utah? It seemed a safe bet that Utah has the US's highest birth rate, given Mormonism there. A search confirmed it. (Sorry I'm lazy on video sources.)
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Re:Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa. by jbrechtel on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @08:06PM (#4383725)
No he doesn't mention it from what I recall. The data discussed is broader (and more longitudinal) than that trend.

Personally I'd guess the birth rate there is a direct result of the church's push for more children, but I don't really know.

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