It seems you've got it backwards. Abrahamic religions, for example, created an "I-It" relationship by declaring nature to be subordinate to mankind in Genesis.

It seems you've got it backwards. Abrahamic religions, for example, created an "I-It" relationship by declaring nature to be subordinate to mankind in Genesis. The theory of evolution and the science of ecology defines the relationship as communal and interrelated, or "I-Thou".