A story appeared recently in The Sunday Times (UK) featuring work by Michael Blume on religious demography. In a nutshell, religious adherents tend to produce more offspring (2.5) than secular their counterparts (1.7, below replacement). While access to the original news story requires a paid subscription, it has draw many comments on the Richard Dawkins Foundation website that make for interesting reading.
Posted on Monday, January 3rd, 2011.