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Some people have a misunderstanding of Darwin’s theory of Natural Selection: It doesn’t mean the strongest survive, it doesn’t mean the “smartest” survive. All it means is that those individuals who are most able to successfully produce offspring are the most “fit”. Sometimes this might be because they’re strongest, it might be because they’ve adapted to their environment better.

Or it might just be because they fuck like wild bunnies while everyone else is watching television.

So - in one of the delicious ironies of modern culture - some of the people whose religious beliefs are most likely to shun family planning and more likely to promote large families are classic examples of the survival of the “fittest” being such a complex subject. And they’re also the least likely to believe in it.

Fortunately, high-strung Protestant fundamentalists generally come from selfish, materially-oriented viewpoints, so thankfully they’re not popping out kids any faster than the rest of us, and they don’t have some guy in a miter living in Rome telling them that condom use is tantamount to murder.