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Given how much religiosity has declined I don’t think that’s true at all.

• ceejayoz 4y ago
  Religions have survived declines before; the Catholic Church counts 1.3 billion adherents despite the Reformation. New ones crop up, too; perhaps a thousand years from now Scientology will be the world's largest. There's plenty of evidence that religions can survive doctrinal challenges; Catholics largely decided evolution was God's mechanism for creation, while some Protestants decided it was a Satanic trick.
  • JackFr 4y ago
    The real challenge evolution puts to the Judeo-Christian creation story is not the physical creation of the universe (which most denominations do not take to be literal), but that man’s knowledge of good and evil sets us apart from the rest of creation. Evolution would say a human beings moral sense is simply an evolutionary response to the environment rather than “good” and “evil” being real things.
    • ceejayoz 4y ago
      You don't need much imagination to come up with some sort of apologetic for that concept; "oh, God set evolution in motion, and didn't instill souls until we got to a certain point". It's very doable. Look at things like Sabbath elevators and the 18 miles of fishing line that rings Manhattan (https://www.npr.org/2019/05/13/721551785/a-fishing-line-encircles-manhattan-protecting-sanctity-of-sabbath https://www.npr.org/2019/05/13/721551785/a-fishing-line-enci...). Religion is ever-flexible; humans are clever when motivated to come up with a solution.