THE GREAT WHY HOPE
Religion is the concretion in social terms of those questions asked which rose from the need to plan for survival.
Evolutionary characteristics are the results of successful questions of the environmental niches, and responses which increase survival rates.
The most common unanswered question is "who caused this?" or agency.
We tend to settle for the first answer which appears to work, which may not be the best answer, but is the most efficient use of the resources that questions use up so quickly.
Search is tiring. The result is the gratification of the need to settle a question.
The answer may be this: Google is God.
It answers our questions, satisfies our need to control our dangerous environment, gives us ways to live.
So stop worrying about the kids, and how they now turn to the Internet for answers: they now no longer need religion, or rigid sets of rules to live by. If they have an aching to know what's going on, they just need to be able to formulate good questions.
That's our job as wise parents, and good shepherds of society: give them access to the Internet, encourage them to ask good questions, and to keep their minds open to the new solutions.
Gradually, religion will fade away, like the buggy whip, to be replaced by better and better searchers and answerers.