As a historian and a theologian, I love when the two meet, and they meet often. The religion of Atenism has always fascinated me - how the ancient Egyptians - staunchly polytheistic - suddenly became monotheists for awhile and then went back on it.
There's not a lot of new information in this article if you've ever read or heard of the Atenism movement, but I found one particular passage intriguing: the author talks about how Darwinist Evolution has infected almost every field of study - to the point where many historians believe that ALL human development has followed the pristine and slow method of evolving from one concept to a higher concept over time. This theory posits that religion too must've followed a very slow and defined climb from early animism in pre-historic times to polytheism to monotheism to atheism. However, sticky things like "facts" keep on getting in the way of this view, and things like Atenism break the mold and prove that humans have believed all kinds of things throughout history and at various times.
I find that fascinating because it seems that time and again we see evidence that Darwinism is not a science, but a faith. It is a religion unto itself - a religion with no god or rather one that makes man out to be god. It seeks, as all religions, to explain all things by it's holy tenet that all things are slowly improving from simple to complex, from primitive to advanced, but consistently fails to do so. Mathematics, a true science, would immediately discard a mathematical equation if it couldn't be proven for every case, but Darwinism continues to be published because those who adhere to it aren't interested in actual science or facts, but the preservation of their faith.
People seem to believe that Darwinism is here to stay, but it's important to remember that this new "religion" has been with us for less than 200 years. Who knows, in time even this may be discarded like Atenism was so long ago as a mere fad in the long history of the human condition.
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