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I still think that atheists would debunk native religions, it's just that religions practiced by very small minorities don't have ways of impacting the larger society. Even here in NY, the Jewish people have not made the sale of bacon illegal, but if my lady and I went to the Hassidic town of New Square just a few miles north of us, the laws there would require us to walk down the streets on different sides of it. Fortunately, we have no need or desire to go there!

Why do you feel that science attacks your religion? Evolution is a scientific way of approaching the questions of why everything is here, it is a competing set of thought to the idea that things got here suddenly or deliberately by an outside intelligence.

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1)The Torah is absolute. It was written directly by G-d, not by any human being (not even Moses). Its authority is greater than that of any "science." The first eleven chapters of Genesis are history, not myth, and it tells us that the laws of nature have not always been as they are today.

2)Science can only study the world before it. How that world came into existence is completely outside its legitimate purview. The fact that all people begin as zygotes doesn't mean that the first man who ever lived began as a zygote (you have to start somewhere). The whole project of retrojecting the laws of nature into the distant past in order to discover a purely natural explanation for the existence of everything is loaded with preconceptions and prejudices.