Survival of the fittest. Evolution does not value truth or mortality, so for example secret rapists are a highly successful adaptation regardless of the morality of the action. If evolution is a correct model of reality, this pesky religion and moral agency will diminish with time. True progress. Maybe we can start counting the years from the big bang instead of that Jesus event or w/e!

I find this a seemingly straight-forward point I've never gotten a religious person to acknowledge.

because they don't see it that way, they have their own understanding of free will, religion sells itself as test ( for the most part ), if you pass the test ( temptation or whatever you wanna call it ) you're qualified to enter heaven, so in a way even if you're born christian or a Muslim you still going to get tested, so in their view it doesn't change anything, but from our perspective, it changes everything because we bet that if their parents didn't make them that way, they would never go that route on their own...

99.99999% of people follow the religion they do because their parents did. Not because it's true. That Christian, that Hindu, that Jew. It's just because they were told it was true at birth.

That's why we must address the root cause of all this, which is religion, in Islam for example "Prophet" Mohammed piss be upon him, said

“Every child is born in a state of fitrah, then his parents make him into a Jew or a Christian or a Magian.” (Agreed upon)

As you can see, Mohammed doesn't apply his own observation on his beliefs and because people glorify him, they will never dare to question his reasoning, which is also their own reasoning now..

You can tell a religious person to criticise everything and everyone, and they can, tell them to redirect their critism to their own belief, and suddenly they'll become intellectually handicapped

I wouldn't make it that high. A large amount of Christians I know of are converts.

Presence of some supreme creator may not be proven or disproven, but I think most of the anti-evolution stuff and similar things in most mainstream religions would face more questions when scientific temper improves.

And religions can evolve with this (or die from declining membership), as long as the leaders don’t stick to the “These actually scientifically proven facts are lies sent by the Devil” line.

No, Islamic COUNTRIES did. They didn't achieve excellence in science because Islam benefitted science.

No one claiming it is.

They achieved excellence in science compared to Christian countries in large part because their religious authority figures didn't stand in the way anywhere near as much, not because religion helped.

Not sure how much difference is by changing "Islam" to "Islamic countries", because the fact still remain that Muslim make scientific discovery and excel in mathematics despite being religious. Again, no one claiming Islam benefitted science.

Not true. They are polar opposites.

You just contradicted your last point. Also science are not religion, how can an apple be polar opposite to orange? One can believe in santa clause and ghost while excel in science. It's not mutually exclusive.

That's why scientists are disproportionately atheist and agnostic: the evidence based mode of thinking employed in science doesn't mix with the superstitious and unquestioningly convinced thinking of religion without some SERIOUS cognitive dissonance.

Science are a broad subject, unless they purposely went and look for god, which they wouldn't find, there's like a huge load of subject that doesn't have anything to do with god. Also your impression of religion is like, wrong lol. There's more to religion than just praising god.

No. That's not being human, that's being brainwashed and/or obedient to authority.

See? Human ARE irrational.