As U.S. protestant missionaries in Korea were mostly evangelical in their religious propensities, they discouraged Korean Christians to participate national independence movements (Yi 2011).
Although research reveals that this inclination is independent of religious proclivity (Kelemen 2004a, b), the propensity for teleology provides natural support to creationist tendencies (Atran 1998; Kelemen 1999; Kelemen and Rosset 2009), making the job of biology teachers all the more difficult (and imperative).
If a propensity toward religious belief is "hard-wired" in the brain, as it is sometimes said to be, the wiring has evidently become frayed.
Given the propensity of religious groups to inspire in young people long-term allegiance to their particular faith, questions also arise concerning the potency of the doctrine that religious institutions preach to youngsters.
But if a propensity to religious behaviour really is an evolved trait, then they have talked themselves into a position where they cannot benefit from it, much as a sceptic cannot benefit from the placebo effect of homeopathy.
Hood likens our susceptibility to religious ideas to our propensity to develop phobias for evolutionarily relevant threats (like snakes and spiders) rather than for things that are far more likely to kill us (like automobiles and electrical sockets).
Perhaps something is changing in Scotland's distinctive religious tapestry, but not the propensity for a scrap.
And the difference between good religion and bad religion – like the difference between good and bad people – has little to do with who is right and who is wrong about God and absolutely everything to do with how each religious tradition manages its own propensity for violence.
Then there's PZ Myers, biology professor at the University of Minnesota's Morris campus, whose blog, Pharyngula, is supposedly about Myers's field, evolutionary biology, but is actually about his fanatical propensity to label religious believers as "idiots", "morons", "loony" or "imbecilic" in nearly every post.
But, with marching bands blaring 80s hits and a propensity to leave entire religious faiths feeling insulted, it may just be that Trump has too much personality.
