That's why I'm not entirely confident the elimination of religion will entirely do the trick. I am, however, utterly convinced of my latter point.
I doubt it, witness the current "raw water" craze as well as the anti vaccination crowd. Neither of these come out of religion but both ignore history and well established science. No doubt most of these same people would berate global warning skeptics for "ignoring the science" Humans may be intelligent but they sure are stupid.