(February 1, 2017 at 4:40 pm)ronedee Wrote:(January 31, 2017 at 10:29 pm)Nihilist Virus Wrote: Religion is like a parasitic organism and its ideal environment is an ignorant society. It is dying in our information age.
Two or more religions can form a daughter religion and over time a religion will reproduce itself with variation in a population according to selective pressures (known scientific facts).
This model predicts that many religions should appear spontaneously in ancient history (no selective pressures) despite low population and that religion should go extinct in the near future despite high population.
So essentially, the population of evolution deniers is dwindling according to principles of evolution.
The problem with your theory is that the "information age" has not given any info about the nonexistence of God. So, religion will thrive until it does. And if extinction is in the cards, it won't be because of Christians. It will be in spite of them.
Religion, especially Christianity, will not go extinct. No matter how much "information" is available, there will always be science "denyers". There are college educated Christians denying science in rants and tirades typed into their laptops and dissemenated over the internet daily. Religions are so vague, that they can be reinvented whenever their message wanes. Remarkably, Christianity in America is very different than it was during the birth of the US. People today are much more fervant in their beliefs.
