[JCEccles]

Children, happily, will always be with us.

Only in a technical sense if you live in Dawkin's Europe. There the native born population is dying off half again as fast as it is being replaced.

Here in the US we are barely maintaining replacement numbers.

[LK44-40]

Only in a technical sense [will children always be with us].

You make a dismally true point that calls me up short for my careless rhetoric.

(As it happens, I am sitting with Mark Steyn's longish essay, It's Demography Stupid, in my lap, having printing it out from another thread for a luxurious wallow.)

[MEGoody]

Controversial scientist and evolutionist Richard Dawkins, dubbed "Darwin's Rottweiler," calls religion a "virus" and faith-based education "child abuse"

Sure, belief in evolution is just belief in science. There's no bias involved whatsoever.

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