Introduction: "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth."

In the first century AD, earth population was about 300 million people with zero population growth.
During the next thousand years a balance between births and deaths was kept, and in 1000 AD the world population still included about 300 million individuals. In the beginning of the second millennium the equilibrium which was kept for a thousand years was broken. During the following six hundred years we have doubled our number, and reached 600 million people by 1650 AD. A hundred and fifty years later, in 1800 AD, there were already more than a billion human beings living on our planet. According to the United Nations estimates, in 1950 the world population was about two and a half billion people, and in the year 2000, reached a new record of more than six billion. Based on the current rate, the world population is doubled every sixty years.¹
A similar reproduction process is used for the fast growing of domesticated animals and plants. We call it: "Agriculture".
Agriculture deals with breeding and growing animals and plants, and we ourselves are a numerical proof for the existence of such process. Our mythological fathers are responsible for the current human fertility. They have sanctified the monotheistic religion, and collected its principles into an agricultural manual – The Bible. The book contained detailed instructions for raising big and fine herds of human beings. The great success of the agricultural manual for reproducing human-beings resulted in its adoption by other religions, and it became the foundation for two new religious mutations: Christianity and Islam.
Our religious and ethical codes have developed (in an evolutionary process of the ideas) in such a way that they compel human mothers to give birth and raise three babies within the natural period of time needed for our species to raise one single baby. The messages hidden in the biblical myths were necessary for increasing the potency of human fertility, and have survived as an ancient verbal testimony since that time until our days. Thus for example, the Hebrew word for reproduction (רבייה) "Revi'yah" has become a major commandment in Judaism, and it is composed of the words denoting the two highest Jewish spiritual authorities: the Rabbi (רבי ) and God (יה ). They both constitute the word Revi-yah and sanctify the idea of fertility with their good name. The ancient ideological and verbal combination is not surprising. According to the Jewish tradition, which is based on the Bible, we are committed to 613 Mitzvot (commandments) and the first of them is "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth".

The second part follows the roots of the monotheistic faith. In this part we shall examine the influence of this religious belief on the development of the human culture that also functions as a reproduction mechanism.