Darwin's meme: or the origin of culture by means of natural selection
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"it fails to address why there are so many competitors among religions, if they are competing for the truth. Shouldn’t the false ones have fallen by the wayside, like refuted theories in science, as Scrutin noted?"
There are different religions because of geographical separation, and there are obvious reasons why false religions are spared the same fate as false science theories, science uses EVIDENCE as NATURAL SELECTION, whereas religion cannot be proved right or wrong, so natural selection for religious memes is purely arbitrary, based on the whims of the population.
"If we are going to go on empirical evidence on this specific issue, the weight would fall on the notion that there truly is an external creator who transforms lives and thus keeps faith prosperous in generations to come."
How Does a apparent flaw in theory A, automatically make theory B right? What independent evidence is there for a creator? Will we be seeing anything in any scientific journals any time soon? Arguments like this do very little for your credibility.