dark-amon said:
Vondrakenhof said:
The catholic church. This isn't a swipe at it, it's an observation. For so many years it refused to change and wasn't what people needed from religion that it's been losing a lot of members. Lately they've tried changing a few things but not a lot and it will lead to its destruction.
Although you make a valid point, but even the catholic church evolves. It just does so slower than the regular social structure and thus it seems like it dosen't evolve at all. But some changes has occured (<- I have no idea how that word is written) like that they are more open for the discussion about evolution, as long as it is God who is the cause of the evolution.
I think it isn't possible to stagnate evolution as it happens on a genetic level. It is the genes who evolve to increase the chance to be passed on to a new generation.
If you've noticed through Western civilization and history, the Catholic Church has only evolved because events have forced it to evolve. Take, for example, the Thirty Years War. The result of the war was the secularization of nations, and the Church taking a backseat to politics.
On the genetic level, stagnation happens if there is no change in the environment that forces one to adapt. This, and if humans started having children via incest only, are the only real ways to maintain a stagnation that leads to extinction.
