Very interesting topic. It appears (did you see the Newsweek demographic charts?) that the people who are bearing enough young to grow the species tend to be the ones who are following the tenets of religious belief. The Brights that I know tend to either not procreate or to limit their families to one or two kids. That leads me to believe that the next generations will explode with the "religious gene" and/or a real societal tendency towards organized supernatural belief. It seems to me that the "Supers" are more likely to go the way of mass destruction than those with a naturalistic worldview, so maybe the human race will be reduced or eliminated soon after the next big birth boom. I would be more concerned if I had children, but in general it doesn't look to me like humans have any more importance here than hedgehogs or javelinas.
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