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First of all, I don't want to start a discussion about what you don't beleive or not, so please no fighting.

Christian, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and all the other major religions had adapted to a certain point to the advancement of science, you can be a christian or a muslim or a hindu evolutionist, you can be a hiduist that believes on the big bang and the list goes on and on.

But now we go to norse paganism, let's say that somehow their religion survives, maybe Britain remains norse and they try to copy some aspects of christianity (for example, demoting all gods but Odin to something like saints, making their religion monotheistic), and they live on in the following centuries, the cultural, political and imperialistic results are not relevant for this discussion.

Norse paganism has giants, it got the tree of the world, it has the Jormungard serpent, and depending of the region it would have some minor changes, because of that I wanted to start this discussion: Had Norse paganism survived (as stated above), how would it adapt to the advancements of the science? We know that there are no giants, culd they somehow claim that the giants were a analogy for dinossaurs or something? Could the tree of the world be used as a analogy for the universe, maybe the "tree" being the entire space and the galaxies be their limbs?

I find this a very interesting subject and want to listen your opinions of it.
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