nroberts

I don't have anything more to say on "Why do you think this is?" than to simply point out that secularists and liberals tend to think more about the affects their choices have on the world rather that simply breed by command. Their goal isn't get married, poop out a bunch of kids, die and go to heaven...let the world fend for itself when Christ comes to burn it down. This world view of conservatism has some obvious implications in their actions.

But besides all that I'd like to point out that this isn't as dire a problem as people think. We liberals don't need to go out and breed in order to combat this "problem". Memes don't follow genes. For conservatives pooping out babies...their offspring are biological. Liberals (and conservatives that don't follow this norm), who spend more time reading, thinking, debating, and disecting problems...our children are intellectual children.

This is why the conservatives are so scared of educating their children!! Education and memes win out against biology. You have no choice in what your biological makeup is, but your entire memetic structure can be largely rewritten and it can be rewritten by choice.

So the key to turning the tide that this biological statistic represents is to be proactive in opening as many minds as we can. Another step that might need to be taken is to step in and make sure children are actually recieving a real education and not an indoctrination. Many people may object and say a parent has the right to teach their child what they want but I strongly disagree; you don't own your children. See Dennett's Breaking the Spell for an excellent argument for this.