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I did not intend to state the implications are the end of religion; simply that many faithful will alter their faith, in no small manner.

• jacquesm 7y ago
  I highly doubt that. If the genetics, the silicon revolution, access to space imagery, quality education, the internet and science in general did not alter faith in a drastic way I don't think 'life on Mars' is going to do anything either unless it comes in the form of little green creatures.
  • dleslie 7y ago
    Curious that you don't recognize a significant shift in religious thought in the last century.
    • jacquesm 7y ago
      What shift would that be? Until the 1970's or so it was getting better, since then it's gotten worse if anything. On the Christian side we have whole continents that are following some cliff notes' version of Christianity, mostly centered around money and some opportunistic politics. On the Islamic side a small group of fanatics has managed to divide the world in a way that seemed unthinkable 25 years ago and so on.
  • Jweb_Guru 7y ago
    Yup. It's like how many religious people differentiate between "evolution" and "microevolution," with the latter (basically) encompassing whatever evolution happens to have been experimentally witnessed, no matter how drastic. Generally anything involving bacteria gets lumped into this latter category.