re: #56 Walter L. Newton

With my understanding of religion, it seems like the dogma develops as time passes and the societies develop. People take the previous information, process it through the filters of their own lives and unique perspectives then pass it on and on.

That process worked fine until the scientific method was adopted. People began to understand the processes around them were natural and repeatable. There became a clear difference between what the religious leaders were saying and what was being borne out by research.

My point is that a rational faith system would work a lot better than the completely irrational one that exists now. Why is “God created evolution” such a hard concept to grasp?