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One of the popular alternatives is that God created the entire universe, a hundred billion stars with trillions of other celestial bodies in our galaxy, multiplied across hundreds of billions of galaxies or more, and then on this rocky planet, added water, magnetosphere, atmosphere, millions of species, dumped a lot of fossils in the ground, killed his son, and said believe in him and you'll be able to go to church forever.
At least the Mormons made a note of other planets existing, but still. I prefer to think of what else might be out there.
Another popular theory is that God created the entire universe, and that has made a lot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a Bad Move.
Religion is just slow to adapt to uh, reality.
The Church of latter Day saints is just newer by a thousand or so years.
Religion that worships The God Of The Desert is still stuck in the Middle Eastern desert five thousand years ago, when science was non-existent and even writing/reading was a rare thing, as baffling to most people then as the inner workings of AI are to us now.
The principles and values (some sensible, some nonsensical and dangerous in the present world) of people living in the desert five thousand years ago are still being hammered into our minds as children by those who had it hammered to them as children also. Some break free of this conditioning in view of modern evidence, some do it partially, some don't do it at all.
I don't think this is unique to any religion.
Religion is all inherently centered around trust in falsehoods. They mix it with normal philosophy, But due to the way our brains and imaginations work in relation to fear and tribal survival instincts, they get jumbled up, and the philosophy stagnates the same way the belief in imagined things does.
In other words, I view all religions as literal cult practices of irrationality and fear. Varying levels, for sure, but it's the defining trait of religion.
That being said, as long as those people practice modern respect for others' autonomous free wills, I don't have a problem with them. I just also think that the defining trait of religion is conducive to not doing that.