To say that these religious systems don't make useful predictions is false.
No, it isn't. If it is true, you would have pointed to at least one such prediction. Instead, you rambled on about religious domination.
Well, if you want an example, the Creation Science people are really big on the Great Flood and Noah. Every since Creationism has been around (Henry Morris and John Whitcomb, The Genesis Flood, 1961) they have made the prediction that there was a time when there was a very small number of humans living (Noah's immediate family).
Modern genetic research has borne this out. Studies of regular and mitochondrial DNA have shown that there was a time when the human population dwindled to just a handful.This is known as the "population bottleneck."
Of course, this may just be due to the fact that if you make stories up, especially myths and legends, they may be based on some racial memory. Or they got lucky. Or they may be God's given truth. Your mileage will vary.
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To say that these religious systems don't make useful predictions is false.
No, it isn't. If it is true, you would have pointed to at least one such prediction. Instead, you rambled on about religious domination.
Well, if you want an example, the Creation Science people are really big on the Great Flood and Noah. Every since Creationism has been around (Henry Morris and John Whitcomb, The Genesis Flood, 1961) they have made the prediction that there was a time when there was a very small number of humans living (Noah's immediate family).
Modern genetic research has borne this out. Studies of regular and mitochondrial DNA have shown that there was a time when the human population dwindled to just a handful.This is known as the "population bottleneck."
Of course, this may just be due to the fact that if you make stories up, especially myths and legends, they may be based on some racial memory. Or they got lucky. Or they may be God's given truth. Your mileage will vary.