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I've spent the past hour trying to come up with a concise argument against this, such as pointing out that their model fallaciously treats a curve as extending to infinity, that religions and language don't even remotely compare, that the "scientists" are lumbered with hidden assumptions such as treating religion as a mere social construct without objective reality, or that they ignore the fact that God is not a passive factor in the equation. Then I found the perfect counter that even they might have noticed, at least in regard to religion disappearing in the Netherlands. I can sum it up in two words:
Allah Akbar!
Gosh, I feel cozy and comfy now.
2 comments:
Religions do not "become extinct" and are succeeded by nothing. Rather, an existing belief system is replaced by, or evolves into, another.
Christianity had its roots not just in Judaism, but in Mithraism as well. (The Holy Trinity is a Mithraist concept, not a Hebrew one.) The schism between Catholicism and Protestantism was preceded by that between the Roman church and the Eastern (Byzantine) one. The Lutheran revolt began as a protest against the sale of indulgences, not as a full-on schism. And so on.
In no case did anyone, on either side, decide that God didn't exist. They just had different views on what He is actually like, and what He wants us to do.
Scientists who expect the "vacuum" they predict to be filed with agnosticism that worships only a reality they define are apt to be disappointed. Very badly.
Of course, if Islam fills that space, they won't have to worry about it for very long. Just until they are bent over the headsman's block for a light trim. (Allah does not like scientists very much, from all indications.)
cheers
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If cultural evolution is analogical to biological evolution and the same analogies and rules apply, the situation is crystal clear:
We have an empty ecological niche.
For any pioneer species to enter and occupy.
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