A Thought Experiment for Believers and Atheists Alike

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I think more would be created, ad infinitum. In other words, I think religion as a thing... rather than any particular religion... is here to stay... forever... and nothing... not a hypothetical reset like this or the greatest advances in science... would ultimately make any difference. Because the human condition is always searching for answers, especially on subjective metaphysical questions like consciousness and continuity, and science alone is ultimately incapable of answering them definitively. So where there are gaps - as there always will be... a hundred years from now, a thousand years from now (if we haven't nuked ourselves by then) people will still be asking those same questions even if they're flying around in spaceships as they do - there will always be people willing or needing to literally take a leap of faith as to what might fill those gaps... and for this hypothetical, they'd be the founders of the new religions.