Each day, it is becoming more and more possible that we may be the last generation to ever believe in the current brand of Christianity. For thousands of years, human beings have assumed that the Earth was created solely for our benefit, and that we are the most important species on the planet. This attitude has contributed largely to the massive environmental crisis we find ourselves in today, and in turn, this crisis is showing us our relative unimportance. As we saw in our study of genre films, the debate between science and faith has become a cornerstone of our modern culture, and as any current viewers of the popular show "Lost" can tell you, faith is still winning. The mass majority of our country still professes to believe in "young earth" creationism, and media producers can't risk isolating that demographic.
However, in less mediated communication circles like the internet, the broad consensus is that science has already won the war. The rise in scientific imaging has made previously hard to understand concepts readily available to the masses. Today, while politicians hold strong to their "Christian" roots, even the Catholic church is revising their ideas of the genesis of human beings. New religions like Scientology have emerged to greet the rising challenges of empirically upholding old world religious teachings by embracing and integrating the power of scientific imaging into new propaganda. In light of the multitude of evidence suggesting the world is billions of years old, and that our existence on the planet will constitute less than a blip on the universe, it is difficult to make a case that Creationist Western religions like Christianity, Islam, and Judaism will have any relevance in the immediate future. Modern Christians answer these questions by ever bending the teachings of the bible, but in my opinion, they have already passed the breaking point.
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