[DungeonMaster]

Point is: none of this has any relationship to religious doctrines or practices.

Not according to what God calls idolatry.

Jer 2:27 Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

The theory is as old as the Old Testament and will never go away because it is the religion of idolatry.

[BroJoeK]

DungeonMaster quoting Jeremiah 2:27: 'Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth..."

To be clear, Jeremiah is here rebuking Israel's worship of wooden and stone idols, not some theory of natural science.

Indeed, the Bible arguably confirms evolution theory when it says: Genesis 2:7 "Then the Lord God formed a man[c] from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being."

Of course the Bible does not tell us to worship (!!) the "dust of the ground", but neither does it forbid us from studying natural processes which could make that happen.