In essence, the concepts of the bible (or any religion) would NOT get rewritten.
If you destroyed the trinity study and zapped everyone's knowledge of FIRE, eventually the ideas of that study would get rewritten, because the same tests would yield the same observations and conclusions.
Which is the true constant? You presume that the Bible could be destroyed and would not be reconstituted. Then you put your "faith" in the 4 percent rule.
The Bible represents a lot of constants that will be reconstituted in a "mysterious way." These constants are the moral rules a civilization should live by. The 4 percent rule is NOT a rule of Physics. It is not a rule handed down by Providence. The 4 percent rule is a statistical pattern which has a high correlation. It depends on other people's behavior and the assumption that resources will continue to sustain us. History shows us a lot of civilizations for which things have changed. I'd guess those civilizations, Aztec, Mayans, Indus, folks on Easter Island, etc. had their equivalent to the 4 percent rule too.
The only thing permanent in this world is change. It's as old as all the rocks. That part ain't a conspiracy.
But the key is that I DON'T put faith in the 4% rule. I put my faith in logical reasoning and empirical evidence. It just so happens that right now the evidence supports the 4% rule. If in ten or twenty years better evidence suggests otherwise, I'll adjust my strategy, as will most on here. I'll follow the evidence wherever it leads.
As to the stuff in the bible that would get reconstituted in a "mysterious way", the only stuff that would come back would be the obvious stuff that everyone with common decency knows.
...don't kill people...don't steal...treat people the way they'd want to be treated.
Well no shit. Every religion pretty much says that, and so do pretty much all atheists.
The stuff that would not come back is stuff that has no evidence or common sense:
- dude gets swallowed and spit out alive by a whale
- a loving god commits mass genocide and kills every man woman child and animal except for a few on a boat..because..he loves us so much.
- don't braid your hair or eat shell fish
- gay people burn in hell...actually, unfortunately there's enough bigots in the world that this idea probably would come back.
- ghost knocks a woman up and greats man-god
- there exists a a god in three persons.
stuff like that. That's the kind of stuff that doesn't come back if all the books and memory of it were destroyed, because there's no logic or evidence behind any of it.
People just believe it because of that word you used...faith. You can't compare that kind of faith to faith in things that are supported by evidence, by people who are willing to change their stance when better evidence surfaces.