[Elsie]

Creating the physical properties of the universe that allowed the planets to form, life to emerge and species to evolve based upon shifts over time in environmental conditions also resulting from those created physical properties.

But the ToE is like Forrest Gump - "You never know what yer gonna get."

[zeeba neighba]

But the nice thing about having a faith that is so easily adapted to change, is that you can have modern prophets giving speeches and making money teaching and publishing. Plus, if you can make it a State religion, you get a nice thing going, for a long time, and nobody can ever contradict you, because you tell them what to think, and it's illegal for them to think otherwise if they want to buy and sell, in the marketplace. You can also label all dissenters as whacko crazies and put peer pressure on them to conform.