gag, pet peeve of mine. Religion is, to quote TeMPOraL "Religions based on the Bible tend to be half faiths, half community management handbooks." you can gen

gag, pet peeve of mine. Religion is, to quote TeMPOraL "Religions based on the Bible tend to be half faiths, half community management handbooks." you can generalize that statement very far; religion is one of the key "technologies" which allows communities to scale past 5K people. Think "city". Thus religion has a very different purpose than physics. It is about psychological health on a community and individual level. The stories of physics, on the other hand, "eerie ideas such as force field, wavefunction, observable,..." don't really tell you much about how to handle things when your neighbor's barking dog is frustrating you. (insert snarky comment about engineering a force field to solve the problem) Even assuming that the bible is the literal word of deity, it is inconsistent to believe that the creation stories of genesis are descriptions of actual physical processes. because that is not why deity put those stories there. because deity was talking using a language which is 1.5-3K years old (let's agree to not argue dates, I'll accept the date you prefer), and words like "world" and "universe" meant something very very different back then than they do today. So if it is deity's literal word, then it must literally mean what it meant in the context of that earlier culture.