Big bang is pretty creationist, if you ask me. That's one reason people can hang onto Genesis.

In my opinion, some aspects of religion are not aoubt explaining stuff. It's about giving order to society. The Ten Commandments, so to speak. "If you do this, you burn in hell." It's a way of keeping the people in order. If people don't know what controls thunder and what makes animals different, they'll believe and follow these laws, despite their self-serving ways.

Today, it still exists because of the afterlife. We can't explain what happens after death. The Ten Commandments are still as spellbinding as ever, for that reason alone.

In the olden days, religion=order. Today, religion=comfort. In politics religion=bogus controversy.