It doesn't threaten religion, it only threatens the belief of those who hold to the thinking that only a strict, 1:1, LITERAL interpretation of the Bible can be had. Read: Fundamentalists.
Case in point, the Roman Catholic Church has an official position of acceptance in regard to the darwinian theory of evolution. The same can be said for basically every moderate sect of Christianity as well as almost every other major world religion.
Of course almost any form of science threatens fundamentalist beliefs considering that they also believe that the world is 6,000 years old, God stopped the sun from revolving around the earth, men used to live to 300 years of age, and that all 6.8 billion people on the planet came from a single pair of humans living only a few thousand years ago. All of these beliefs fly in the face of modern cosmology, geology, biology, and so on.
Case in point, the Roman Catholic Church has an official position of acceptance in regard to the darwinian theory of evolution. The same can be said for basically every moderate sect of Christianity as well as almost every other major world religion.
Of course almost any form of science threatens fundamentalist beliefs considering that they also believe that the world is 6,000 years old, God stopped the sun from revolving around the earth, men used to live to 300 years of age, and that all 6.8 billion people on the planet came from a single pair of humans living only a few thousand years ago. All of these beliefs fly in the face of modern cosmology, geology, biology, and so on.
