How Have/Are Social and Scientific Theories Affecting Views and Adherence To Religions?

[Don]

You've got two moving targets here -the sciences and the religions - which can be subdivided almost endlessly. It's certainly not the case that science is mutable and it differentially affects an unchanging religious landscape; religions change as well.

And most people on the planet are not Christian (who seem particularly worried about communism and evolution) and few are well educated about modern science, so there seems to be an inordinate amount of obfuscation here - perhaps too much unravel without drastically narrowing your aim.